Fiction
Terms
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- THEME
- The main message of the story/lesson learned. Must be implied.
- AUTHOR'S PURPOSE
- Reason for writing
- CHARACTERIZATION
- A method an author uses to create the appearance and personality of characters
- CONNOTATION
- The feelings associated with a word as opposed to a word's literal meaning.
- PROTAGONIST
- The main character of the story
- AUDIENCE
- A group of readers who reads a particular piece of writing.
- SYMBOL
- "Something concrete to stand for something else (idea, emotion)"
- RESOLUTION
- The outcome of a story
- CONFLICT
- The problem of a story. It can be internal or external.
- ROUND
- "A character who is full of life and dimension, important to the story."
- FLAT
- A character who we know little about
- FORESHADOW
- Hints or clues as to what will happen in the story.
- CONTEXT CLUES
- Using words around a word to identify an unknown word.
- INFERENCE
- A conclusion drawn from information that is given.
- CLIMAX
- Turning point of a story
- SETTING
- The time and place of a story.
- EXPOSITION
- The introduction of the story"(Setting, Conflict, Characters)"
- STATIC
- A character who stays the same.
- DYNAMIC
- A character who changes.
- PLOT
- The events of the story
- DENOTATION
- The dictionary definition of a word.
- IRONY
- Events that are opposite of what you expect to happen.
- ANTAGONIST
- The character or force against the protagonist
- FLASHBACK
- An interruption of the present to go back to an event in the past
- TRAIT
- Characteristics of characters in a story.