Literary Vocab. 3/27 or 3/28
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| Narrator | The person telling the story.
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| Narrative | A story with a beginning, middle, end, characters and conflict.
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| Plot | The sequence of events in a story.
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| Exposition | The introduction. It introduces the characters and setting.
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| Rising Action | A series of events that builds from the conflict. This portion of the plot ends with the climax.
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| Conflicts | Problems that take place on a story.
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| Climax | The major turning point of the story.
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| Falling Action | Events after the climax, leading to the resolution.
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| Resolution | End of the story where all lose ends are tied up.
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| Mood | The FEELING created by a literary work or passage.
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| Paraphrase | To restate in your own words. The message does NOT shorten in length.
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| Style | Anything special or unique about the way a writer writes.
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| Predict | Using prior knowledge to explain what you think will happen in the future.
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| Irony | When the opposite of what you think will happen happens.
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| Dramatic Irony | When a reader of aware something that a character isn't.
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| Text Organisation | The way in which an author presents the information in their article or story: chronological order (sequencing), problem/solution, cause and effect, compare-contrast, and describing.
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| Chronological Order (Sequencing) | The order in which events happen in time.
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| Foreshadowing | The use of hints and clues to suggest what will happen later in a plot.
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| Inference | Using text evidence and your own prior knowledge to make an educated guess about something that is not directly stated.
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| Summary | Give the main point of idea and the most important details.
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| Tone | The ATTITUDE with which a text or part of a text is written
Ex: serious, humorous, etc.
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| Evidence | Supporting materials used to prove of disprove something.
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| Fact | A concept whose truth can be proved.
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| Opinion | A personal belief or judgement that is not founded of proof or certainty - an assumption.
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| Thesis | The primary position taken by a writer.
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| Narrative Poetry | Poetry that tells a story. It has a beginning, middle, end, characters, and conflict.
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| Lyric Poetry | Poetry that expresses the thoughts and feelings about one topic.
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| Imagrery | Writing that appeals to one or more of the five senses and helps create a mental picture.
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| Alliteration | Use of the same constant sound in words next to each other.
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| Onomatopoeia | Words that make sounds - bam.
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| Metaphor | Comparing two unlike things by saying one is the other.
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| Simile | Comparing two unlike things using like or as.
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| Characterization | Writing that reveals the personality of a character.
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| Rhythm | A pattern of sounds that you hear when reading.
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| Antagonist | The character who opposes the main character.
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| Portaganist | The main character in the story.
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| Symbol | Something that represents something else in a literary work.
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| Theme | A reoccurring idea of concept in a story.
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