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RLA Fiction
RLA STAAR vocabulary Fiction
Term | Definition |
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1st person point of view | written about one's own experiences (clue: "I"s all throughout) |
3rd person point of view | written about someone else's experiences |
Summary | the retelling of main events in a story |
Plot | main happenings in a story or text |
Setting | the time and place of the story |
Characters | who or what a story is about |
Characteristics | the qualities or traits of a character (physical traits, personality traits, motivations) |
Character relationships | connection between people |
Conflict | problem in a story |
Problem resolution | the solution to a story's main problem or conflict |
Compare | to show similarities |
Contrast | to show differences |
Conclude | to predict or understand from the clues presented in the text |
Foreshadow | a hint or clue of future events |
Flashback | a memory of a past event |
Suspense | building tension |
Climax | high suspense/turning point - the OMG |