Week 5 ELA Vocab

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Dark Comedy

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a comedy that uses humor to make light of a serious subject

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Denotation

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the literal meaning of a word

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Dystopia: "Dys-" means bad or difficult

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A fictional setting where everything is bad.

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The Hunger Games trilogy is an example of

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dystopia

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Epithet

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something added to a name that becomes common usage

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Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson, Oscar the Grouch, Alexander the Great, Richard the Lionhearted, the artist formerly known as Prince

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epithets

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euphemism

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a nice way to describe something unkind or embarrassing

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"passed away, let go from her job, a pre-owned car" are examples of

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euphemisms

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Flashforward

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jumping forward in the story to give important plot details

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Flashback

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A scene in a movie, novel, etc., set in a time earlier than the main story.