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Language Arts Vocab.
Term | Definition |
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Plot | Action |
Plot line | A graphic organizer that illustrates the pattern of action in a short story |
Setting | Time and place the story occurs |
Character | People or animals who participate in the plot |
Conflict | A problem the main character struggles to resolve |
Main Character | The character that struggles to resolve the conflict |
Major Character | Character other than the main character who plays a large role in the plot |
Minor Character | Character other than the main character who plays a small role in the plot. |
Static Character | Character who is unchanged by the events of the plot |
Dynamic Character | A character is changed, good or bad, by the events of the plot |
Climax | The turning point in the main character's struggle to resolve the conflict |
Resolution | The point of the plot in which the conflict has been resolved |
Denouement | A snazzy French word for the resolution of a plot |
Exposition | Another word for the introduction of a plot |
Cliffhanger | A story that ends before the conflict has been fully resolved |
Realistic Fiction | Fiction that is written to seem as if it is real |
Credible | Believable |
Believable | Able to be believed |
Plausible | Believable |
Implausible | Unbelievable |
Incredible | Unbelievable |
Appositive | A noun or noun phrase that renames the noun or noun phrase immediately before it |
Direct Address | A person is directly addressed, or spoken to directly, in a sentence |
Root Word | The base word part |
Prefix | A word part that precedes the root word |
Suffix | A word part that follows the root word |
-cred- | Root word meaning "believe" |
in- | Prefix meaning "not" |
im- | Prefix meaning "not" |
un- | Prefix meaning "not" |
non- | Prefix meaning "not" |
-ible | Suffix meaning "able to" |
-able | Suffix meaning "able to" |
-ly | Suffix that turns the root word into an adverb meaning "in this manner"; (happily=in a happy manner) |
-ed | Suffix that makes a verb past tense |
-chromo- | Root Word meaning "color" |
a- and an- | Prefixes meaning "no" or "without" |
photo- | Prefix meaning "book" |
ped- | Prefix meaning "foot" |
hemi- | Prefix meaning "half" |
Genre | A category of literature into which text is classified based on its literary characteristics |