Language Arts Final
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- what happens in a story
- plot
- where and when the events of the story take place
- setting
- takes place in a characters mind
- internal conflict
- a character sturggle s with a group of people, or a force of nature
- external conflict
- the main idea of the story
- theme
- the story of a person's life, written or told by that person
- autobiography
- one pf the characters is telling the story
- 1st person point of view
- the narrator focuses on thoughts and feelings of only one character
- 3rd person piont of view
- the repetition of the same or very similar consonant sounds in words that are close togetger
- alliteration
- the use of words with sounds that echo thier sense
- onomatapoeia
- a comparison between two unlike things using like or as
- simile
- an imaginative comparison between two unlike things without using like or as
- metaphor
- a figure of speech in which a non human thing or quality is talked abot as if it were human
- personification
- a reference to a statement, person, place, or event from literature, history, religion, mythology, politics, sports, or science
- allusion
- the use of cluse to suggest events that will happen later in the plot
- foreshadowin
- a contrast between expectaion and reality
- irony
- where the divinities lived
- Mt. Olympus
- king of the gods, sky, and weather
- Zeus
- prewriting, rough draft, revise, edit, fianl copy
- writing process
- word that transitions one sentece to the next
- transition word
- to end a story
- function of a conclusion
- to introduce a story
- function of an introduction
- startling or interesting facts,vivid detailed description, question, incidents or ancedotes, and quotations
- ways to start an introduction
- copying someone else's work
- plagiarism
- the narrator knows everything about the characters and their problems
- omniscient point of view
- a sudden ending making the reader want more
- cliffhanger
- language that appeals to the senses
- imagery
- a word or phrase that describes one thing in terms of something else and isn't literally true
- figureative language
- a story that originally was passed on to generation and generation by word of mouth
- folktale
- common features of traditional folktales
- motif
- spreading out
- dispersal
- getting used to
- accustomed
- not able to do something
- incapable
- correcting angerly
- scolding
- highest point or peak
- pinnacle
- on time
- punctual
- copy
- emulate
- to put up with
- tolerate
- hurt by something
- offended
- listening in to another's conversation
- eavesdropped
- 4 modes of writing
- descriptive, expository, narrative, persuasive