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A theme in a piece of writing is an important idea or subject that runs through it.

EXAMPLE
Fatty Legs:
The running theme throughout Fatty Legs was courage and resilience. Olemaun Pokiak shows her ability to bounce back, even in the hardest situations, multiple times in this short story. For example, even when the Raven made her do extra cleaning, Olemaun would simply do the cleaning and continue with her main goal, learning to read.

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A figure of speech in which a word or phrase is applied to an object or action to which it is not literally applicable. A metaphor is a comparison which is not literally true. It suggests what something is like by comparing it with something else with similar characteristics.

EXAMPLE
Borders:
"We got postcards from Laetitia regular, and, if she wasn't spreading jelly on the truth, she was happy." The above quote demonstrates that Laetitia could be lying about how happy she is, since her family does not see her regularly.

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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. Uses "like"or "as"

EXAMPLE
Two Islands:
"... the whole island seemed like one big city." This simile shows how one action can massively impact something; in this case, an island

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The attribution of a personal nature or human characteristics to something nonhuman, or the representation of an abstract quality in human form.

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Two Islands:
Throughout this story, the people of Graynel treat Greenel as if the island is living, since it is not industrialized yet.

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The Living Island is the name given to the setting of The ClueFinders 5th Grade Adventures: Secret of the Living Volcano.

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The Living Island is an uncharted island somewhere in the Pacific Ocean. It is fairly small with a large volcano in its center, and it seems to have a tropical climate. The island's vegetation includes tall grasses, vines, ferns, and palm trees. The most curious aspect of the island is that it seems to be "alive" by residents' claims. The ocean waves around the island are said to automatically push back any boats that try to leave, there are holes in the ground that move on their own, and rain that remains in one place on the island. The island is populated by people who have become trapped there over the years. Many of them appear to be descended from colonial Americans, and still dress and talk as people did in that era.

Towards the end of the game, it is revealed that the entire island was actually a spaceship inhabited by aliens, who were collecting humans and other organisms for the purpose of raising them on their planet so they could feed on their brains. The interior of the volcano contains various biosphere chambers designed to contain animals and people that have been captured, and a computer which simulates predator-prey relationships between species to determine if they will thrive on the aliens' planet. After the ClueFinders find a control room, they initiate a launch sequence and escape with all the people on a boat, right before the volcano erupts and the island sinks in the sea. Then, the spaceship rises out of the water, its true form revealed, and blasts away, presumably back to the aliens' planet.

Residents of the Living Island Edit

Activities in the Living Island Edit

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The Living Island is the name given to the setting of The ClueFinders 5th Grade Adventures: Secret of the Living Volcano. The Living Island is an uncharted island somewhere in the Pacific Ocean. It is fairly small with a large volcano in its center, and it seems to have a tropical climate.

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Visually descriptive or figurative language;paints a picture for the reader.

EXAMPLE
Two Islands:
This story is filled with imagery, as it depicts Graynel as very city-like island, while Greenel is pictured as a green island sprawling with life.

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Motivation is the reason for people's actions, willingness and goals. These needs could also be wants or desires that are acquired through influence of culture, society, lifestyle, etc. or generally innate.

EXAMPLE
To Build a Fire:
This tale is a good example of motivation, because it was nearly -60C in northern Canada, and the Chechaquo was very cold, and if he doesn't heat up, he will freeze to death. In my opinion, the looming threat of death is the best motivation you can get.

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Situational irony is a literary device that you can easily identify in literary works. Simply, it occurs when incongruity appears between expectations of something to happen, and what actually happens instead.

EXAMPLE
The Necklace:
This story has irony because the main characters ended up spending a of of money when they didn't. Monsieur and Madame Loisel lost their friend's necklace, which is appraised at 36 000 francs. After spending years to gather all the money needed to buy the replacement necklace, it is revealed that the actual necklace is worth a mere 500 francs.

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The place or type of surroundings  where an event takes place.

EXAMPLE
To Build a Fire:
Throughout this short story, the author uses the physical setting and emotional setting to make the reader feel something when reading this story.

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The main events of a play, novel, movie, or similar work, devised and presented by the writer as an interrelated sequence.

EXAMPLE
Fatty Legs:
IN this story, all the main plot elements are clearly visible, and easily identifiable.

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The position from which something or someone is observed in a story. Information can be biased or limited due to viewing the story from a certain perspective

EXAMPLE
Never Stop on the Motorway:
I chose this story, since it shows how when Diana thought she was being followed, so did the reader. The reader believes this because that is the way Diana views the situation. This shows how a situation can vary depending on who is witnessing it.

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An expression designed to call something to mind without mentioning it explicitly; an indirect or passing reference.

EXAMPLE
To Build a Fire:
The main character, the "man," is described as being a newcomer to the Yukon territory, a Chechaquo, which means"newcomer" or "tenderfoot" in Chinook jargon.

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A temporary state of mind or feeling OR inducing  a particular feeling or state of mind.

EXAMPLE
Fatty Legs:
Fatty Legs creates a very unique mood. This mood involves comfort, yet calamity; intrigue, yet honesty; and warmth, yet bone-chilling cold.

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A person in a novel, play, or movie. Throughout the story, their mental and moral qualities are revealed.

EXAMPLE
Fatty Legs:
Olemaun Pokiak is a very good example of character. Throughout the entire story, she shows many qualities, changes, learns, and feels many emotions, as an important character would.

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An artistic and poetic movement or style using symbolic images and indirect suggestion to express mystical ideas, emotions, and states of mind. A symbolic meaning is commonly attributed to natural objects or facts.

EXAMPLE
Borders:
Borders has multiple examples of symbolism. For example, when at the border, the border agent has a gun, which symbolizes the scare tactics used to hold up the law.

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Far from bringing old enemies together in a Kodak moment, the flag debate seems to have inflamed political passions and turned Maputo's morning radio call-in programs into pro- and anti-flag slugfests.

"It's an open debate, on TV, radio and with people in restaurants and cafes," said Lorenço do Rosario, the vice chancellor of the Higher Polytechnic and University Institute in Maputo and one of the city's intellectual lights. "It is an intense debate, and youngsters and adults alike have very strong opinions."

Mr. Manteigas, who sits on Parliament's ad hoc committee for redesigning national symbols, says Frelimo officials maliciously "stirred things up" by mounting a public-relations campaign against changing the symbols.

But Manuel Tomé, the national chairman of Frelimo, says that the public likes its flag and emblem just as they are, and that Renamo's demand for revisions seems to be little more than a power trip.

Frelimo already agreed with Renamo to scrap the national anthem, with its opening cry "Viva Frelimo!" and its promise that "our country will be the graveyard of capitalism and exploitation," in favor of an upbeat ditty about mountains, rivers and "flowers sprouting in the soil of your sweat." Changing yet another symbol for the sake of political comity, Mr. Tomé said, is not justified.

"I don't want to pre-empt the debate, but this national flag represents national unity," he said in an interview here. "It was on the basis of this flag that we have united the people against colonialism."

The flag surely represent Frelimo's identity. It dates to 1962, when Frelimo (for Mozambique Liberation Front) was formed by Mozambican exiles opposing Portugal's rule.

The exiles adopted a flag largely identical to the present one: horizontal bars of green, black, yellow and white, pierced by a red triangle on the hoist side. In 1983, after Mozambique became a one-party state under Frelimo rule, the government added a simplified version of the nation's emblem, a single star behind a hoe, a Kalashnikov and an open book. (The emblem also has a sun, a wreath woven from rice stalks and an ear of corn.)

Critics of the symbols have no complaint about the book, the stripes, the corn or the hoe. But to Renamo's supporters, who were virulent reactionaries during their counterrevolutionary past, the gun and star hark back too painfully to Frelimo's own days as a party of revolutionary Marxists.

The AK-47 is an especially sore point. "As a peaceful country, you can't have a flag with a gun on it," said Mr. Manteigas, the Renamo legislator. "For children growing up now in peace, they see a flag with a gun on it, and it doesn't make sense."

As for the star, he said, anyone who has seen the Soviet flag knows that a star is the mark of Communism. It is true that the Mozambique flag's yellow star seems borrowed from an earlier Frelimo flag with a crossed hammer and hoe under a yellow star, a blood relative of the old Soviet hammer and sickle.

Frelimo advocates say the critics are overreaching. The Kalashnikov, they say, is but a coincidentally Russian symbol of Mozambicans' determination to defend their land; the star merely signifies solidarity with Africans. (The horizontal black stripe is supposed to symbolize Africa, too.)

If Mozambique's single star were to symbolize Communism, Joaquim Chissano, the nation's president for 19 years, said, the Stars and Stripes would place the United States among the world's most leftist nations.

One could reasonably ask why people who settled a civil war that killed a million civilians find it so hard to make peace over some images stitched into a piece of cloth.

One answer might be that Mozambicans are so clearly splintered in other respects. The state radio broadcasts in 21 languages; the national borders, drawn by colonial occupiers, are heedless of ethnic boundaries. Perhaps Mozambicans' greatest unifying forces have been the desire to expel their Portuguese rulers, and the Portuguese language those rulers left behind.

Which side is right? It may not matter. Any change in the flag and emblem must be approved by two-thirds of the 250-member Parliament. And Renamo, with 90 seats, controls barely a third of the body.

Tomás Mario, a 46-year-old novelist from Maputo, said: "If it goes to a vote, it's obvious that Frelimo will smash Renamo, and the symbols will remain the same. But for the sake of democracy, they're saying, 'Let's vote."'

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Symbols Are Important. So What Does a Gun Symbolize?

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When right-wing Renamo and left-wing Frelimo, the dominant political forces in this lovely seaside nation, ended 16 years of civil war in 1992, they made a pact to forget old enmities. They wrote a new constitution. They held national elections. Three years ago they chose a new anthem.

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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
Borders:
Most of the flashbacks in this story focus on Laetitia and her mother's interactions before Laetitia decided that she wanted to move to Salt Lake City.

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A warning or indication of (a future event), that is not clearly mentioned.

EXAMPLE
Never Stop on the Motorway:
When Diana hits the cat, It comes as a total surprise. I believe that the surprise foreshadows the surprises to come. Another minor detail is the fact that the cat is black, and, according to pop culture, black cats signify bad luck.

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state or feeling of excited or anxious uncertainty about what may happen.

EXAMPLE
Never Stop on the Motorway
When the reader learns that there is a possibility that the man following Diana could be a rapist and a killer, The story almost seems to speed up, as intensity grows.