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Reading vocab test
Term | Definition |
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Setting | The time and place in which a story occurs |
Dialogue | A conversation between two or more charactes |
Plot | What happens in a story |
Characterization | The tools a writer uses to reveal a characters personally |
Point of view | The perspective from which a story is told |
Limerick | A five lined humorous poem,with an AABBA rhyme scheme |
Genre | Categories into which literature is divided |
Memoir | A written memory |
Conflict | The main problem or obstacle a character must face |
Dialect | A form of language spoken in a particular area or by a particular group of people |
Theme | The underlying lesson learned about life |
Dystopia | A society in which the living conditions are miserable |
Utopia | A place of ideal perfection especially in laws,government,and social conditions |
Flashback | And interruption in the present action to review events that took place at an earlier time |
Science-fiction | A genre of fiction which is set in the future and employs plausible technological advancements |
Antagonist | The character who opposes the protagonist and is responsible for the conflict in the story |