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Academic Vocabulary Terms
Term | Definition |
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textual evidence | information or a statement taken from a piece of literature |
analysis | careful examination of something in order to understand it better |
inference | something that you think is probably true, based on information that you already know |
complex character | main character that undergoes change as the plot unfolds |
plot | the sequence of events in a story; it includes 4 stages: exposition, rising action, climax, and falling action |
theme | the main idea in a work of literature; it is a perception about life or human nature that the writer shares with the reader |
metaphor | a figure of speech that makes comparisons between two things that are basically unlike but that have something in common; do not use "like" or "as" |
simile | makes a comparison between two things using the word "like" or "as" |
personification | a figure of speech in which human qualities are attributed to an object, animal, or idea |
alliteration | the repetition of consonant sounds at the beginnings of words |