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Language Arts Vocab
2015-2016
Term | Definition |
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plot | action |
plot line | a graphic organizer that illustrates the pattern of action in a short story |
setting | time and place the story occurs |
character | people or animals who participate in the plot |
conflict | a problem the main character struggles to resolve |
main character | the character who struggles to resolve the conflict |
major character | character other than the main character who pays a large role in the plot |
minor character | character other than the main character who plays a small role in the plot |
static character | a character who is unchanged by the events in the plot |
dynamic character | a character is changed, good or bad, by the events in the plot |
climax | the turning point in the character's struggle to resolve the conflict. |
resolution | the point of the plot in which the conflict has been resolved |
denouement | a snazzy French word for the resolution of the plot |
exposition | another word for the introduction of a plot |
cliffhanger | a story that ends before the conflict has surely resolved |
realistic fiction | fiction that is written to seem as if it is real |
credible | believable |
believable | able to be believed |
plausible | believable |
inplausible | unbelievable |
incredible | unbelievable |
appositive | a noun or noun phrase that renames the noun or noun phrase immediately before it |
direct address | a person is directly addressed, or spoken to directly, in a sentence |
root word | the base word part |
prefix | a word part that precedes the root word |
suffix | a word part that follows the root word |
-cred | root word meaning "believe" |
in- | prefix meaning "not" |
im- | prefix meaning "not" |
un- | prefix meaning "not" |
non- | prefix meaning "not" |
-ible | suffix meaning "able to" |
-able | suffix meaning "able to" |
-ly | suffix that turns the root into an adverb meaning "in this manner"; (happily = in a happy manner) |
-ed | suffix that makes a verb past tense |
a- | prefix meaning "without" |