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- Falling Action
- The events after the climax which closes the story.
- Personification
- Non-human objects that have a human characteristic.
- Theme
- The moral to the story
- Omniscient
- They know everything.
- Metaphor
- Comparison of 2 unlike things without using like or as.
- Infer/Drawing Conclusion
- Making an educated guess based on evidence.
- Genre
- Category of writing
- Static Character
- Character that stays the same.
- Climax
- High point of the story (all the action takes place)
- Man vs. Nature
- Us against Mother Nature. (Hurricane)
- Author's Purpose
- Reason the author wrote the story.
- Flat Character
- Identify by one or two traits and they don't change.
- Author's Style
- Way the author writes
- Antagonist
- Bad guy in the story
- Irony
- What you thought was going to happen doesn't
- Conflict
- A problem
- Onomatopoeia
- Words that mimic sounds
- Dynamic Character
- A character that under goes change because of events in a story.
- Round Character
- Complex character that has fully developed dynamic traits.
- Imagery
- What you see in your head after reading something.
- Allusion
- A brief reference to something
- Protagonist
- Main character in the story
- Plot
- Main idea
- Simile
- Comparing two unlike things using like or as
- Tone
- Attitude of the story
- Crisis
- Major Problem (where it's most intense.)
- Alliteration
- The repeating sound
- Symbolism
- Something that represents something else
- Man vs. Self
- Internal conflict.
- Exposition
- Intro to a story.
- Point of View
- Angle from which the story is told
- Setting
- The time and place of a story.
- Man vs. Society
- a man going against society. (When someone is gay)
- Static Character
- Character you can always recognize.
- Foreshadowing
- A prediction
- First Person
- Person that can only tell you their thoughts what others tell them, and what they see or hear.
- Rising Action
- Events leading up to the climax
- Compotation
- Applied meaning to something
- Resolution
- A solution
- Denotation
- Dictionary meaning.
- Mood
- How the author is trying to get you to feel.
- Third Person
- Narrator that can see the other persons minds.
- . Context Clues
- Words surrounding an unknown word helping you figure out an unknown word.
- Man vs. Man
- Man having a conflict with another man. (Basketball Game)
- Author's Organization
- How the author organizes the story
- Verbal Irony
- What you say is not what you mean.
- Flashback
- Return to the past to understand the future
- Hyperbole
- Exaggeration.