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- opinion
- how you feel on a topic
- protagonist
- the main character or hero
- plot
- sequence of events in a story
- irony
- special contrast between appearance and reality
- dialogue
- what its called when people in a story talk
- first person
- story being told from I, me, we
- setting
- where the story takes place
- during reading strategies
- questioning, connecting, visualize
- direct character
- author tells directly what a character may look like
- internal conflict
- conflict that occurs outside a persons body, or with other people or things
- personification
- giving living things people characteristics
- summarize
- in a short way describe what happened
- flat character
- little is known about the character
- indirect character
- author shows what the character looks like
- simile
- comparing two things using like or as
- allusion
- an indirect refernece to another literary work or to a famous person, place, or event
- metaphor
- comparing two things not using like or as
- resolution
- the end of a story
- third person
- story being told from he, she, they
- antagonist
- opposite of protagonist
- exposition
- beginning of a story
- falling action
- series of events leading to the end
- before reading strategies
- perdictions, visualize
- characters
- people or animals in a story
- after reading strategies
- summarize, clarify
- foreshadowing
- hints or clues that to indicate events that will happen later in the plot
- anachronism
- an event, object, custom, person, or thing that is out of its natural order
- short story
- 500-1500 words, entertain, teach a lesson, fiction
- round character
- a lot of information is given about the character
- common knowledge
- what you already know about a topic
- third person omniscient
- all-knowing point of view
- jargon
- special vocab common to a specific group of people
- static character
- characters who remian the same from beginning to end
- dynamic character
- a character who under goes change as the plot unfolds
- imagery
- descriptive words the recreate sensory expirences
- climax
- turning point in a story
- external conflict
- conflict that occurs outside a person
- rising action
- series of events leading to the climax
- theme
- perception on life or human nature
- mood
- the feeling or atmosphere the writer creates