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Kirby the Nerd
FCAT Vocabulary 2006
| (>@.@)> | @|\|W$E® Here |
|---|---|
| ::Kirby Nerd::What is Resolution? | ::Kirby Nerd::A solution to conflict the falling action after the climax of the plot. |
| ::Kirby Nerd:: What is Pacing? | ::Kirby Nerd:: Pacing is based on the idea that each question on the test takes a certain amount of time to read and anwser. |
| ::Kirby Nerd:: What is Conflct? | ::Kirby Nerd::A struggle within a plot. |
| ::Kirby Nerd:: What is Contrast? | ::Kirby Nerd::To show how objects or ideas are different. |
| ::Kirby Nerd::What is Theme? | ::Kirby Nerd::Literary term or the main idea of a place of writing. |
| ::Kirby Nerd::What is Tone? | ::Kirby Nerd::The authors attitude towards the reader places, events or characters. |
| ::Kirby Nerd::What is Metaphor? | ::Kirby Nerd::Figure of speech implied comparison EX; Her hair was like straw. |
| ::Kirby Nerd::What are the 5 types of conflict in literature? | ::Kirby Nerd::man vs man, man vs nature, man vs himself, man vs the supernatural, and man vs society. |
| ::Kirby Nerd::What is Plot? | ::Kirby Nerd::The action of a story ; plot depends on setting and sequence of events. |
| ::Kirby Nerd::What is Setting? | ::Kirby Nerd::The time and place of a story. |
| ::Kirby Nerd::What is Compare? | ::Kirby Nerd::To show how objects or ideas are alike. |
| ::Kirby Nerd::What is a simile? | ::Kirby Nerd::Comparison of one thing, with another ,of a different kind as an illustration or ornament. ex. She was as hungry as a horse. |
| ::Kirby Nerd::What is Main Idea? | ::Kirby Nerd::The message or the most important point of the passage. |
| ::Kirby Nerd::What is inference? | ::Kirby Nerd::A logical deduction based on evidence. |
| ::Kirby Nerd::What is Conclusion? | ::Kirby Nerd::A statement that is based on the information in the reading . It is a logical summary based on text. |
| ::Kirby Nerd::What are the three types of context clues? | ::Kirby Nerd::Synonyma or Definition, an Antonym, the general meaning of the passage. |
| ::Kirby Nerd::What is Context? | ::Kirby Nerd::A word’s setting. The other words in a sentence create context and determine meaning. |
| ::Kirby Nerd::What is figurtive language? | ::Kirby Nerd::Brings in an element of fantasy or exaggeration. |
| ::Kirby Nerd::What is literal language? | ::Kirby Nerd::To use a word in a factual way or stress the truth of a statement that might otherwise be understood as figurative. |
| ::Kirby Nerd::What is a bullet? | ::Kirby Nerd::A black dot , square or dimond shaped on the left of the sentence or phrase. |
| ::Kirby Nerd::What is synthesizing? | ::Kirby Nerd::The processs of drawing information. |
| ::Kirby Nerd::What is emotional appeal? | ::Kirby Nerd::An example of a method of persuasion that connects emotionally with the reader. |
| ::Kirby Nerd::What is Revision? | ::Kirby Nerd::Altering and improving the context of an essay. |
| ::Kirby Nerd::What is Central Conflict? | ::Kirby Nerd::The main problem or struggle in the plot of a poem, story, or play. |
| ::Kirby Nerd::What is Irony? | ::Kirby Nerd::The difference between appearance and reality. |
| ::Kirby Nerd::What is Motive? | ::Kirby Nerd::A reason for acting a certain way. |
| ::Kirby Nerd::What is a Myth? | ::Kirby Nerd::A story that explains something the beginnings of things in the natural world. |
| ::Kirby Nerd::What is Characterization? | ::Kirby Nerd::The act creating a character. |
| ::Kirby Nerd::What is Folk Tale? | ::Kirby Nerd::A story passed by word of mouth frpm generation to generation. |
| ::Kirby Nerd::What is Personification? | ::Kirby Nerd::A figure of speech in which something not described asif it were human. |
| ::Kirby Nerd::What is Oral Tradition? | ::Kirby Nerd::A work, idea, or custom passed by word of mouth from generation to generation. |
| ::Kirby Nerd::What is Fable and Myth? | ::Kirby Nerd::A breif story with animal characters and moral. |
| ::Kirby Nerd::What is Legened? | ::Kirby Nerd::A story based on important real events of characters, often from distant past. |
| ::Kirby Nerd::What is Subpolt? | ::Kirby Nerd::Reference in a literary work to something famous. |
| ::Kirby Nerd::What is Aim? | ::Kirby Nerd::His or her purpose, or goal. |
| ::Kirby Nerd::What is Parallelism? | ::Kirby Nerd::The expression of similar ideas in a similar way. |
| ::Kirby Nerd::What is Autobiography? | ::Kirby Nerd::A story of a person’s life, written by that person. |
| ::Kirby Nerd::What is Science Fiction? | ::Kirby Nerd::Imaginative based on scientific principles, discoveries, or laws. |
| ::Kirby Nerd::What is Image? | ::Kirby Nerd::An language that describes something that can be seen, heard, touched, tasted, or smelled. |
| ::Kirby Nerd::What is Speaker? | ::Kirby Nerd::The voice that speaks, or narrates, a peom. |
| ::Kirby Nerd::What is Personification? | ::Kirby Nerd::A figure of speech in which something not human is described as if it were human. |
| ::Kirby Nerd::What is Exposition? | ::Kirby Nerd::A part of a plot that introduces the setting and the major characters. |
| ::Kirby Nerd::What is Irony of Situation? | ::Kirby Nerd::An event that contradicts the expectations of the characters, the reader, or the audience of literary work. |
| ::Kirby Nerd::What is Understatement? | ::Kirby Nerd::A statment that treats something inportant as though it were not inportant. |
| ::Kirby Nerd::What is skimming? | ::Kirby Nerd::To look over the passage quickly. |
| ::Kirby Nerd::What is Propoganda? | ::Kirby Nerd::Infomation that is spread to support a cause. |
| ::Kirby Nerd::What are 6 purpose of writing? | ::Kirby Nerd::Explain, inform, persuade, entertain, describe, analyze. |
| ::Kirby Nerd::What is periodical index? | ::Kirby Nerd::Directs you to the latest infomation on any subject and provides summaries of infomation. |
| ::Kirby Nerd::What is a secondary source? | ::Kirby Nerd::Written about the event from a distance of time and place. |
| ::Kirby Nerd::What are key words? | ::Kirby Nerd::they help describe the anwser in a different way from the question. |
| ::Kirby Nerd::What is a Satire? | ::Kirby Nerd::A literary mode based on criticism of people and society through ridicule. |
| ::Kirby Nerd::What is Ribicule? | ::Kirby Nerd::Words intended to betitle a person or idea and arouse contemptuous laughter. |
| ::Kirby Nerd::What is Rhyme? | ::Kirby Nerd::The similaritys between syllable sounds at the end of two or more lines. |
| ::Kirby Nerd::What is Allegory? | ::Kirby Nerd::A figurative work in work in witch a surface. narrativecarries a secondary, symbolic or metaphorical meaning. |
| ::Kirby Nerd::What is Apologue? | ::Kirby Nerd::A moral fable, usually featuring personified animals or inanimate objects which act like people to allow the author to commenr on the human condition. |
| ::Kirby Nerd::What is Blank Verse? | ::Kirby Nerd::Unrhymed iambic pentameter. |
| ::Kirby Nerd::What is a Blurlesque? | ::Kirby Nerd::A work designed to ridicule a style, literary form, or subjectmatter either by treating the exalted in a trivial way or by discussing the trivial in exalted terms. |
| ::Kirby Nerd::What is Conceit? | ::Kirby Nerd::An elaborate, usually intellually ingenios poetic comparison or image. |
| ::Kirby Nerd::What is Euphuism? | ::Kirby Nerd::A highly ornate style of writing popularized. |
| ::Kirby Nerd::What is Free Verse? | ::Kirby Nerd::Verse that has neither regular rhyme no regular meter. |
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