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Keystone Vocab D-L
KGVocab D-L
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Drama | Works intended for the stage |
| Explicit | Clearly expressed in the actual text |
| Exposition | Providing necessary background |
| Fact | A piece of information presented as true |
| Falling Action | Characterized by diminishing tensions of the plot |
| Fiction | Any story that is the product of imagination |
| Figurative Language | Language that cannot be taken literally |
| First Person | Events as they are perceived by a single "I" character |
| Flashback | Presenting action that occurred before the story |
| Foreshadowing | An literary device to set up later developments |
| Genre | A category used to classify literary works |
| Hyperbole | An exaggeration or overstatement |
| Imagery | Using sensory impressions |
| Implicit | Unexpressed meaning |
| Inference | A judgment based on reasoning |
| Informational Text | Primarily conveys factual information. |
| Interpret | To give reasons through an explanation |
| Irony | Incongruity between expectation and result |
| Literary Device | Used to enliven and provide voice to the text |
| Literary Element | An essential technique used in literature |
| dramatic script | the written text of a play |
| draw conclusion | to make a judgment based on reasoning |
| elements of fiction | imaginative or narrative traits |
| elements of nonfiction | reportorial or argumentative traits |
| evaluate | to examine or judge carefully |