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ROK Vocabulary Set 5

QuestionAnswer
Paraphrase Reword a selected passage of text in "your" own words while keeping the basic meaning.
Personification A figure of speech in which animals, plants, ideas, or inanimate objects are given human characteristics and personality.
Play A story written to be performed in front of an audience.
Plot The sequence of related events that make up a story.
Poem/Poetry A type of literature in which ideas and feelings are expressed in compact, imaginative and often musical language.
Poetic meter This is the basic rhythmic structure of a verse.
Point of view The perspective from which a story was told.
Prediction An inference or guess made about the future. Usually based on the available information and previous experiences.
Protagonist The main character (the central or main figure) of a drama story.
Pun/word play Play on words, usually for humor. Example: When a clock is hungry it goes back four seconds.
Realistic fiction Stories that have imaginary characters and made up events that seem like people and events we would find in real life and in real situations.
Rhythm The arrangement of syllables in a line of poetry that makes a particular sound or beat as music.
Round character Usually the most interesting character developed by the author. The author includes details about how a round character thinks, acts, looks and feels.
Satire A style of writing or art which ridicules or criticizes its subject such as individuals, ideals, institutions or society in general.
Science fiction Scientific topics, space travel, aliens and recognizably earth-variant worlds or life forms.
Second person point of view This refers to 'you' in narrations, explanations or arguments.
Created by: sjohnson5
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