English
Terms
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- connotation
- emotional meaning associated to the word
- internal conflict
- inside the character
- protagonist
- good guys
- metaphor
- A figure of speech in which a word or phrase that ordinarily designates one thing is used to designate another w/o using "like or as" to make a comparison
- subject
- what the sentence is about
- demonstrative--prounons
- points out(demostrates) a noun ( this, that, these,those)
- Intensive--prounons
- used for empahsis not essential ends in"self"
- Interrogative--prounons
- introduces a question *(what, which, whom, whose)
- simile
- a fiquire of speech that uses like or as to make a comparison
- linking verb
- a verb that conncets the subject to a word
- indefinate--prounons
- not definite not specificly anmes (all, any, one, much)
- coordinating--conjuction
- for,and,nor,but or, yet, so
- antagonist
- bad guys
- suprise ending
- unexpected ending
- sutiuational irony
- the opposite of what you expect
- subordinating--conjuction
- although, before, because,as, though,unless, until, while,since, as soon as, if, when
- action verb
- a verb that expresses physical or mental action
- hyperbole
- exaggeration or bold statement
- predicate nominative
- word/word group in the predicate and that indentifies the subject or refers to it
- stereotype
- fixed generalixe idea about a character or situation
- round character
- character that learns/changes thru the story
- conjunctions
- part of speech that serves to connect words, phrases, clauses, or sentences
- mood
- overall feeling created in a story
- flat character
- character that stays the same
- reflexive--prounons
- refers to subject and necessary for sentence, ends in "self"
- proper noun
- specific ex Samuel
- singular noun
- ex bike
- tone
- author's attitude towards subject
- prepisitional phrase
- shows relationship of noun/pronoun to other word
- concrete noun
- recieve w/ senses ex; chocolate
- foreshadowing
- clues for what will happen later in the story
- collective noun
- ex : team
- figurative language and 4 types
- descriptive language not to be taken for real, metaphor, simile, personfication,hyperbole (MSPH--mom says pet her)
- direct object
- noun, pronoun,or word group that tells who or what and receives the action of the verb
- setting
- time and place of story's action
- external conflict
- caused by outside forces
- predicate adjective
- adjective in teh predicate that describes the subject
- relative--prounons
- which, that ,what, whome, whose
- theme
- main idea of literary work
- plot--list sequence of related events in a story
- exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, resolution ERCFR(every reindeer can fly right)
- correlative--conjuction
- used in paires ex"either or not only"
- allusion
- reference to another of literature
- Imagery
- use of words and prhases that appeal to. A set of mental pictures or images
- personification
- giving human traits to non-human things
- plural noun
- ex: bikes
- denotation
- strict meaning of word
- common noun
- ordinary, non-specific ex: boy
- abstract noun
- feeling, idea ex: love
- compound noun
- ex basketball
- confict
- struggle btw opposing forces
- verbal irony
- sarcasim
- suspense
- puts reader on the edge of their seat
- symbol
- object that has meaning in itself
- flashback
- author goes back in story
- inference
- reasonable/smart conclusion drawn from hints provided by author
- nouns
- a person, place, idea or thing
- adverbs
- part of speech that modifies a verb, adjective, or other adverb
- indirect object
- noun, pronoun,or word group that appears in sentence containing direct object