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ELA Unit 1 Vocab
Question | Answer |
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Cause and Effect | A relationship between events and processes where one causes the other. |
Character | A person, animal, or figure represented in a text. |
Coherence | The clear and orderly presentation of ideas in your writing and speaking. |
Connotation | The suggested or implied meaning or emotion associated with a word. |
Denotation | The literal meaning of a word. |
Dialogue | Conversation between characters in a text. |
External Conflict | A character struggles with an outside force, such as another character. |
Foreshadowing | Clues or hints signaling events that will occur later in the plot of a story. |
Incident | The central piece of action that is the focus of the narrative. |
Internal Conflict | A character struggles with his or her own needs, desires, or emotions. |
Metaphor | Compares two unlike things without using words like or as. |
Personal Narrative | A story based on one's own life and told in the first person. |
Personification | Figurative language that gives human characteristics to an animals, idea, or nonliving object. |
Plot | The sequence or related events that make up a story. |
Point of View | The perspective from which a story or poem is told. |
Reflection | A description that explains the significance of the incident. |
Response | The immediate emotions and actions associated with the incident. |
Sequence | To put things in order. |
Setting | Where or when a story takes place. |
Short Story | A fictional narrative that presents a sequence of events, or plot that includes a conflict. |
Simile | Compares two unlike things using words such as like or as. |
Theme | The central idea, message, topic, or purpose of a literary work. |
Transitions | Words that link two ideas, sentences, or paragraphs by showing their relationship. |