L.A Final
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- Protagonist
- Main Character
- Perspective
- Point of view
- Character
- A person in a book
- Point of view
- The outlook of a character
- Plot
- Pattern of events in a story
- Conflict
- Struggle between oposing forces
- Turning point
- Most exciting part of a story
- Theme
- Message or idea that the author is trying to communicate with the reader
- 1st person
- Uses "I" to tell the story
- Setting
- The time,place, and culture in which the story takes place/action happens.
- Rising action
- suspense builds up
- Summary
- the book told in a couple of sentences
- Third Person
- Narrarator uses "he or she"
- Mood
- atmostphere or feeling inside the story creared by the author's word/style
- Falling action
- After the climax, the story starts to wind down.
- Predicate
- The part of sentence that describes the subject of a sentence.
- Preposition
- The part of speech that indicates "relative position" in time or space.
- Nonfiction
- Real
- fiction
- not real; doesn't exisist
- Compare
- To make similarities between two things
- Effect
- An action which makes a problem
- Hierarchy
- A graphic orginizer which get into more and more detail
- Contrast
- To show that something is different
- Problem
- A situation
- Venn diagram
- showing the differences and similarities.
- Enumeration
- a non-fiction structure that discusses different categories,types, or examples of a larger, more general topic.
- Sequence
- Tells a true story in order
- Solution
- a solved problem
- Timeline
- A list of events in the order that they happened.
- Description
- structure that gives informataion about a topic,idea,person,situation, or event by giving facts and details.
- Marred
- to spoil, to ruin the beauty of.
- satirical
- use of sarcasm
- precursor
- a person who is sent to prepare for an announce another's coming
- beheld
- to look at
- formidable
- hard to overcome
- ominously
- unfavorably;threatening
- apprehension
- fear;dread
- estranged
- to turn a person from affection to indifference dislike, or hatred
- urban
- cities or towns
- calamitous
- a great misfortune such as a fire,flood,the loss of sight, or hearing.
- valiant
- brave;courageous
- plaintive
- mourful;sad
- gale
- a very strong wind
- proclaim
- made know public and officially
- profane
- a disreguard about holy things
- fatigue
- wearyness caused by hard work
- assualt
- a sudden virgorous attack
- marooned
- to put a person ashore;alone in a desolant place.
- extort
- obtain by threats,force,fraud,or wrong use of authority.
- Abhorred
- To dest, to reguard with horror
- noxious
- harmful too living things
- drought
- a long period without rainfall
- demure
- modest and reserved in nature or behavior
- dilemma
- a difficult choice that needs to be made in a situation
- prattled
- chatter or talk about meaningless things
- vehemently
- forceful in expression
- destitute
- Poor,withour resources
- Sprawling
- to cause to spread out in a disorderly fashion
- brandish
- to wave menacingly.