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| Intertextuality (definition) |
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| Shaping of texts or meanings by other texts. May refer to an author's borrowing and transformation of a prior text or to a reader's referencing of one text in reading another. Any relationship between 2 texts such that the meaning of one text is enriched by or dependent on its relationship to the other text. |
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| Intertextuality (example) |
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| Hair and beauty hidden in Scarlet Letter and Their Eyes Were Watching God. |
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| Recurrent device formula or situation that often serves as a signal for the appearance of a character or event. |
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| Scaffold, heart, light & dark, or plants & herbs in the Scarlett Letter. |
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| The act of telling a story. |
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38 Who Saw Murder by Gansberg
or Only Daughter. |
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| Onomatopoeia (definition) |
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| Word capturing or approximating the sound of what it describes. |
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| Buzz, click, rattle, grunt. |
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| Satirical imitation of a work for the purpose of ridiculing its style or subject. |
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| Scream movies or a caricature. |
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| Point of view (definition) |
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| The way a story gets told and who tells it. Determines the position or angle of vision from which the story unfolds. |
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| chicken crossing the road from different perspectives. |
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| Rhetorical Device (definition) |
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| Word patterns/style used to clarify, make associations, and focus the writing. |
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| Rhetorical Device (example) |
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| Analogy, parallelism, tone. Or repetition, apostrophe, antithesis or climax. |
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| Sharp remark, a form of irony that is bitterly critical. |
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| Sure I would definitely love to work at 4 o'clock in the morning. |
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| Sentence structure. Sentences long, short, simple, or compound. Word order, not choice of words or meaning of words. |
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Phrases, clauses, sentences.
The dog ran. <-simple
The dog ran, but the cat purred. <-complex. |
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| Acknowledged or unacknowledged source of words of a story; The speaker telling the story. |
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| Different from point of view in that it is how the narrator sounds, not the perspective of the person telling the story. They may sound excited or depressed or sarcastic. |
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