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August VocabularyMonday, August 6, 2012analyze: to separate into parts for close study; examine and explain.cite: to use the words of someone else; quotemultimedia: the combination of sound, still pictures, and videoargument: a reason in favor of or against something.Tuesday, August 7, 2012cohesion: to be connected by reason; be consistent.collaborate: to cooperate or work with someone else, esp. on an artistic or intellectual projectcredibility: the quality of being believable, or the power to cause others to believe.delineate: to describe or portray in precise or vivid detail

Wednesday, August 8, 2012 salient: extremely noticeable or prominent coherent: logically ordered or connected; consistent nuances: a subtle quality or difference in tone, meaning, color, or the like; shade. conventions: a practice or way of doing something that is accepted by most people

Monday, August 13metaphor: a comparison of 2 things without using like or as, may say one thing and mean another onomatopoeia: words that are spelled like the sounds they makeconflict: the internal or external problem in a storyoxymoron: an oxymoron is basically a phrase that has 2 words that would contradict each other, or just don't seem they should go together, such as "jumbo" and "shrimp.

Tuesday, August 14, 2012simile: comparing two uncommon things with the words like or asalliteration: words in a sentence that begin with the same consonant soundirony: a contradiction between what you think will happen and what actually happens.protagonist: the leading character in a literary work

Wednesday, August 15, 2012imagery: language that evokes one or all of the five senses: seeing, hearing, tasting, smelling, touching. dialogue: a talk between two or more people or between characters in a play, film, or novel; quotation marks will be used.narrator: a person or character who tells a storyclimax: The top of Freytags Pyramid, the point at which a conflict reaches a crisis in a work of literatureMonday, August 20, 2012point of view: The vantage point from which the story is told.suspense: a feeling of growing tension or excitement.mood: a feeling in a literary work.characterization: the techniques a writer uses to create a characterTuesday, August 21, 2012antagonist: A character or force in conflict with the main charactersetting: The time and place of the action in a story-ology: a suffix that means "the science or study of."paleontology: the science that studies animal and plant fossils for information about life in the past.Wednesday, August 22, 2012theme: The central message in a literary worktone: It expresses the writers attitude toward his/her subject. fossil: the remains or trace of a living animal or plant from a long time ago. Fossils are found embedded in earth or rock.artifact: any object made by human beings