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Reading Literature
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Allegory | This is a story with two or more levels of meaning--a literal level and a symbolic level--in which events, setting, and characters are symbols for ideas or qualities. |
| Analyze | This verb means to separate a whole into its parts and then look more closely at those parts. |
| Anecdote | This is a brief story about an interesting incident. |
| Central | The key point made in a passage is called its ____ idea. |
| Chapter | This is a long section of a book. These sections are often listed in the table of contents. |
| Character | This is an individual\'s mental or moral quality. |
| Characterization | This is the combination of ways that an author shows readers what a person in a literary selection is like. |
| Characters | These are the people or animals who take part in a literary work. |
| Climax | This is the part of the plot where the conflict and tension reach a peak. |
| Compare And Contrast | This is a method of examining similarities and differences between two or more objects in a piece of work. |
| Complex | This describes something that is complicated, difficult, or consists of interrelated parts. |
| Conclusion | This is when you use pieces of information on a subject to base your opinion or make a decision. You draw a ________. |
| Conflict | This is a problem, disagreement, or other issue which occurs between characters in a story or play. |
| Conflict | The main problem in a literary work is called the major ____. |
| Conflict | Often, an antagonistic relationship called a ___ drives the plot of a story or novel. |
| Context | When we find the meaning of a word (or phrase) by looking at the words and sentences around it, we are using ____ clues. |
| Contrast | This is a method of relating how two or more elements or texts are DIFFERENT. |
| Definition | Usually found in a dictionary, this tells you the meaning of a word or phrase. |
| Denotation | The literal definition of a word is also called its ______. |
| Detail | This is a piece of information that is used to support a main idea. |
| Dialect | This is a form of language that is characteristic of a particular place or is used by a particular group of people. |
| Dialogue | These are the words spoken by characters in a literary work. |
| Direct Characterization | When a character is revealed by clear descriptions by the author, this is called _____ characterization. |
| Event | This word means anything that happens to or is done by a character in a story. |
| Example | This type of context clue is used to help the reader infer the meaning of a vocabulary word or provide a supporting detail. |
| External | An ______ conflict is when a character has a problem with another character, nature, society, or fate. |
| Falling Action | This is the part of the plot where the conflict begins to be worked out and tensions lessen. |
| Fantasy | This is a genre which includes impossible story events, magic, or supernatural elements. |
| Figurative | Language that goes beyond the literal meanings of words to create special effects or feelings is called ____ language. |
| First | The point of view in which a story is told by one of the characters is called ____ person. |
| Flat Character | A character in a fictional work that is never fully developed by the author is called a ___. |
| Foil | This character serves by contrast to highlight opposing traits of the main character to further define the main character. |
| Generalization | This is forming a broad idea based on specific instances. Inductive reasoning. |
| Genre | This is the category or type of literature. |
| Historical Fiction | This is a sub-genre of fiction. It is written to portray a time period or share information about a specific event. It is set in the past and based on real people and/or events. |
| Humor | This persuasive technique uses puns, irony, sarcasm, satire, and jokes. This is done by dismissing opposing views, providing a more engaging and friendly tone, and convincing an audience or consumer by having them enter in on the joke. |
| Imagery | This is the use of language that appeals to the five senses--touch, taste, smell, hearing, and sight. |
| Implied | This is a suggested, but not stated, definition. It is an ___ definition. |
| Indirect | This is when an author reveals a person in the story through his/her words, thoughts, appearance, action, or what others think or say about him/her. It is called ___ characterization. |
| Inference | This is reading between the lines. It is taking something that you read and putting it together with something that you already know to make sense of what you read. You make an _____. |
| Informational Text | This is a type of real-world writing that presents material that is necessary or valuable to the reader. |
| Internal | When a character has a problem within him or herself it is called an ___ conflict. |
| Limited | This is a point of view, in which the narrator is outside the story, reveals the thoughts of only one character, and yet refers to that character as \'he\' or \'she\'. It is called third-person _______. |
| Limited Third Person | This is a point of view where the narrator relates the inner thoughts and feelings of only one person. |
| Literal | This is an exact word-for-word meaning, without exaggeration. |
| Literary Summary | A _____ summary is a synopsis of the events, characters, and ideas in a work of literature. |
| Logical | This refers to a reasonable and sensible arrangement of ideas and details is called a ___ organization. |
| Main Idea | This is the most important idea of a reading passage or presentation. |
| Minor Conflict | This is a small problem in a literary work. |
| Moral | A theme of a passage, story, novel, poem, or drama that readers can apply to life is called a ____. |
| Multiple Meaning | This is when one word has more than one definition. |
| Narrator | This is the teller of the story. |
| Omniscient | The point of view where the narrator relates the inner thoughts and feelings of every character is called third person _________. |
| Opinion | This is an expression of an author\'s personal belief. It is not something that can be proved to be true or false. |
| Organization | In writing, this is the process of ordering, structuring and presenting information. It is called the _____ of the text. |
| Paragraph | This is a section in a piece of writing that discusses a particular point or topic. It always begins with a new line, usually with indentation. |
| Paraphrase | This is the restatement of a written work in one\'s own words that keeps the basic meaning of the original work. |
| Person Vs. Person | This describes the type of conflict when the leading character struggles with his/her physical strength against other characters. |
| Person Vs. Self | This describes the type of conflict when the leading character struggles with himself/herself; with his conscience, feelings, or ideas. |
| Person Vs. Technology | This describes the type of conflict that places a character against scientific advances, machines, robots,etc. |
| Perspective | This is a writer\'s or speaker\'s point of view about a particular subject, and is often influenced by their beliefs or by events in their lives. |
| Plot | This is the series of events that happen in a literary work. |
| Poem | This is an arrangement of words in verse. It sometimes rhymes, and expresses facts, emotions, or ideas in a style more concentrated, imaginative and powerful than that of ordinary speech. |
| Poetry | This is the third major type of literature in addition to drama and prose. |
| Point Of View | This is the perspective from which a story is told or information is provided. It is the way the author lets the readers see and hear the story or information; who tells the story. |
| Resolution | This is the part of the plot where the conflict is ended. |
| Round | A character in a fictional work that is very well developed is called a ___ character. |
| Scene | This is a small division of a play that usually happens in a particular time and place. |
| Setting | This is the time and place in which a literary work happens. |
| Short Story | This is a brief work of fiction. It resembles a novel but has a simpler plot and setting and fewer characters. |
| Speaker | In a book, speech, article, or poem, this is the voice which narrates the story or discussion. It may or may not be a character in the story or text itself. |
| Stanza | This is a group of related lines in a poem, similar to a paragraph in a story. |
| Static | A _________ character does not change during the course of the action. |
| Structure | This refers to a writer\'s arrangement or overall design of a literary work. It is the way words, sentences, and paragraphs are organized to create a complete work. |
| Style | This is the way an author expresses ideas through the use of kinds of words, literary devices, and sentence structure. |
| Subjective | This term describes a narrator or writer who puts his or her own opinions and feelings into the description of the action in a piece of writing. It is the opposite of \'objective\'. |
| Summarize | To restate briefly is to ____. |
| Support | To strengthen or prove an argument, analysis, or idea by providing facts, details, examples and other information is to ___ it. |
| Supporting | To strengthen your ideas and opinions with examples, facts, or details is to add _____ details. |
| Supporting Evidence | These are the facts or details that back up a main idea, theme, or thesis. |
| Suspense | This is a state of heightened anticipation and tension, which can arise from events in or the setting of a story. |
| Theme | This is the message, usually about life or society, that an author wishes to convey through a literary work. |
| Third Person | This is a point of view where the author uses pronouns like he and she in telling a story. |
| Universal Theme | This is the central message of a story, poem, novel, or play that many readers can apply to their own experiences, or to those of all people. |
| Viewpoint | This is a writer\'s opinion or way of seeing an issue. |
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