1. Coraline
The Novel

2. Protagonist – the main character… the good guy.
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Protagonist – the main character… the good guy.

3. Antagonist – the opposing character – the bad guy.
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Antagonist – the opposing character – the bad guy.

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Allegory – a story or poem which has a double meaning – its surface meaning and an underlying, symbolic meaning.

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Novel – a form of fiction which is longer and more complicated – it has sub – plots or chapters.

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Dynamic (round) Character – a character in a literary work that changes or grows significantly during the course of events.

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Static (flat) Character – a character who stays the same throughout the course of events in a literary work.

8. Connotation – refers to the ideas or feelings associated with a word.
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Connotation – refers to the ideas or feelings associated with a word.

9. Denotation – the dictionary meaning of a word.
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Denotation – the dictionary meaning of a word.

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Author’s Purpose – the author’s reason for creating a particular work (to entertain, to inform, to express an opinion, to persuade readers to believe or do something).

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Character Development – (usually main characters) characters who change, go through this process of changing traits.

12. Theme – the message or moral that the author conveys in the story.
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Theme – the message or moral that the author conveys in the story.

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Symbol – a person, place or object that stands for something other than itself.

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Foreshadowing – a hint about an event that will occur later in the story.

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Flashback – a conversation, an episode, or an event that happened before the beginning of the story.

16. Mood – a feeling that a literary work conveys to the reader.
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Mood – a feeling that a literary work conveys to the reader.

17. Personification – the giving of human qualities to a non-human thing.
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Personification – the giving of human qualities to a non-human thing.

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Metaphor – comparison of two things saying one thing is something else.

19. Simile – comparing two things using like or as.
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Simile – comparing two things using like or as.

20. Onomatopoeia – sound words.
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Onomatopoeia – sound words.

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Idiom – An expression that has meaning different from the meaning of the individual words.

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Alliteration – the repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words.

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Predicting – using what you already know to make a logical guess about what might happen in the future.

24. Setting – the time and place of a story.
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Setting – the time and place of a story.

25. Dialogue – words that a character speaks aloud.
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Dialogue – words that a character speaks aloud.

26. Imagery – words that appeal to the reader’s 5 senses.
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Imagery – words that appeal to the reader’s 5 senses.

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Sensory Details – words that help the readers see, hear, taste, smell, and feel what a writing is describing.

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