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Definition: The message of the story, stated in one or two complete sentences. When a person describes a story's theme, the person is describing what can be learned about life and/or people from the story.

Life on Earth is precious and limited, every action taken, counts.

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Definition: A figure of speech involving the comparison of one thing with another thing of a different kind, used to make a description more emphatic or vivid Ex: A s brave as a lion, C razy like a fox.

Quote: pg. 1 Life was simple and it moved at the pace of the sun and the moon and the changing seasons.

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Definition: A metaphor is a figure of speech that describes an object or action in a way that isn’t literally true, but helps explain an idea or make a comparison.

Example:

"He broke my heart."
Your heart isn't literally broken; you're just feeling hurt and sad.

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Definition: Personification is when you give an animal or object qualities or abilities that only a human can have

Example:
" Hissing steam and popping bubles'' pg 2

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Definition: There are two parts to a complete setting; emotional and physical. The mood of a story is the emotional setting,  readers need to concentrate on words that evoke feelings and emotion. The time, place, and season comprise the physical setting, so readers need to concentrate on words that describe physical details.

pg. 1 "Once there were two islands, Greenel and Graynel. They sat in the middle of the ocean with  a wide stretch of deep water between them .

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Definition:  Suspense is the intense feeling that an audience goes through while waiting for the outcome of certain events. It basically leaves the reader holding their breath and wanting more information.

Example: And he said to himself, were going to build that bridge anyway, and if they don't like it, just let them try to stop us!'' pg. 1

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Definition: When a writer attempts to describe something so that it appeals to our sense of smell, sight, taste, touch, or hearing; he/she has used imagery.

Example: pg. 2 " Just as Gordon D. Warden started to speak, there was a deep, shaking rumbling sound, as if a huge thunderstorm were caught inside a cave."

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Definition:
A device in the narrative of a motion picture, novel, etc., by which an event or scene taking place before the present time in the narrative is inserted into the chronological structure of the work.

Example: In a story about a girl who is afraid of heights, there is a flashback to a time when she fell off of the top of a playground as a young child.

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Definition: In literature, “motivation” is defined as a reason behind a character’s specific action or behavior. This type of behavior is characterized by the character’s own consent and willingness to do something.

Example: Pg 1. " " Since we are here in the middle of the ocean, and our island is only so big and no bigger, we will have to work very hard to tend it and keep it as lovely as it is today. If we are careful and wise we will be able to grow our own food and learn to make the other things we need to be happy and comfortable."

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Definition: Symbolism is a literary technique that adds meaning to a short story by using an event or object as a symbol to represent something else.

Example:  pg. 2 "The Boss had announced that he would come and throw the first stone into the sea to signal the start of the work."

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Definition: A hint of events to come.

Example: "He promised that if he were the Boss then Graynel would be the best and the richest and the busiest and the most famous little island in the world." Pg 1

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Definition: Character can be defined as any person, animal, or figure represented in a literary work.

In the story Gordon D Warden is our Antagonist.

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Definition:

The mood of a story is the emotional setting,  readers need to concentrate on words that evoke feelings and emotion.

" Life on Graynel became very complicated. There were so many factories to run, so many clocks to keep set on the same time, and so many highways to buil." Pg 1

This evokes the reader to feel the business of the island.

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Definition: The writer selects the point of view from which to tell the story that best suits his/her intentions as a writer.

3rd person: He is just what a young man ought to be," said she, "sensible, good humoured, lively; and I never saw such happy manners!-so much ease, with such perfect good breeding!"

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Definition: A passing or casual reference; an incidental mention of something, either directly or by implication:

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Definition: The events of a story or the series of actions that make up the story are referred to as plot. What happens in the story.

Example: Gordon D Warden becomes too greedy and the whole island tips into the bottom of the ocean and everything is lost.

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Definition:
Irony involving a situation in which actions have an effect that is opposite from what was intended, so that the outcome is contrary to what was expected.

Example: p. 1 " In less than a minute, the whole island of Graynel had tipped up on it's edge and slid down into the oily brown water of Warden Bay."