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ELA Vocab
Literary Vocab
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Narrator | The person telling the story |
| Narrative | A story with a beginning, middle, end, characters, and conflict |
| Plot | The sequence of events in a story |
| Exposition | The introduction. It introduces the characters and settings |
| Rising action | a series of events that builds from the conflict. This portion of the plot ends with the climax |
| Conflicts | Problems that take place in a story |
| Climax | The major turning point in the story |
| Resolution | end of the story where all lose ends are tied up |
| mood | the feeling created by a literary work or passage |
| paraphrase | the restate in your own words the message does not shorten in length |
| style | anything special or unique about the way a writer writes |
| predict | using prior knowledge to explain what you think will happen in the future |
| irony | when the opposite of what you think will happen happens |
| dramatic irony | when a reader is aware of something that a charcter isn't |
| text organization | the way in which an author presents the info in their article or story chronological order(sequencing) problem/solution, cause and effect, compare contrast describing |
| chronological order | the order in which events happen in time |
| foreshadowing | the use of hints and clues to suggest what will happen later in a plot |
| inference | using text evidence and your own prior knowledge to make an educated guess about something that is not directly stated |
| summary | give the main point or idea and the most important details |
| tone | the attitude with which a text part of a text is written ex. serious humorous etc |
| evidence | supporting materials used to prove or disprove something |
| fact | a concept whose truth can be proved |
| opinion | a personal belief or judgment that is not founded on proof or certainty an assumption |
| thesis | the primary position taken by a writer |
| narrative poetry | poetry that tells a story it has a beginning middle end characters and conflicts |
| lyric poetry | poetry that expresses the thought and feelings about one topic |
| imagery | writing that appeals to one or more of the five senses and creates a mental picture |
| alliteration | use of the same constant sound in words next to each other |
| onomatopoeia | words that can make sounds bam |
| metaphor | comparing two unlike things by saying one is another |
| simile | comparing two unlike things using like or as |
| characterization | writing that reveals that personally of a character |
| rhythm | a pattern of sounds that you hear when reading |
| antagonist | the character that opposes the main character |
| protagonist | the main character in the story |
| symbol | something that represents something else in a literary work |
| theme | a reoccurring idea or concept in the story |
| falling action | events after the climax leading to the resolution |
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