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- climax
- The highest point. The point of hisghest dramatic tension or a major turning point in the action(as of a play)
- Resolution
- The act or process of reducing to simpler form.
- suspense
- Pleasent excitement as a decision or outcome.
- Foreshadowing
- To represent, indicate, or typify beforehand.
- Motivation
- Something(as need or desire)that causes a person to act.
- similie
- A figure of speech comparing two unlike things that is often introduced by like or as(as in cheeks like roses)
- metaphor
- A figure of speech in which a word or phrase literally denoting one kind of object or idea is used in place of another to suggest likeness or analogy between them(as in drowning in money)
- two score
- twenty
- Plot
- The plot of the story is made up of a series of related events that include the conflict the climax, and the resolution.
- Conflict
- There are two kinds of conflicts, external and internal.
- Adjective
- An adjective is a word used to describe a noun or pronoun or to geve a noun or pronoun a more specific menaing.
- Adverb
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An adverb is a word that modifies a verb asnswers the question Where? When?
In What Manner? or To what extent? - Action Verb
- An action verb is a verb that tells what action someone or something is performing.
- Linking Verb
- A linking Verb is a verb that connects a word at or near the beginning of a sentence with a word at or near the end.
- Preposition
- A preposition is a word that relates a noun or pronun that appears with it to another word in the sentence.
- Conjunction
- A conjunction is a word used to conect other words or groups of words.
- Interjection
- An interjection is a word that expresses feeling or emotion and functions and functions independently of a sentence.
- Possesive Pronoun
- A personal pronun that can be used as an adjective answers the question Which one? about a noun that follows
- coordinating conjuctions
- Connect similar kinds of words or similargroups of words.
- correlative conjuction
- connect similar words or groups of words and always appear in pairs.
- compound prepositions
- Prepositions made up of two or three words.(ex. according to, because of, as of, aside from)
- Compound Adjective
- A compound adjective is an adjective that is make up of more than one word.
- compound noun
- A compound noun is a noun that is made up of more than one word
- Compound Verb
- A compound verb is two or more verbs that have the same subject and are joined by a conjunction such as and or or.