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Language Arts Vocab.
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| 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 that struggles to resolve the conflict |
| Major Character | Character other than the main character who plays a large role in the plot |
| Minor Character | Character other than the main character who plays a small role in the plot. |
| Static Character | Character who is unchanged by the events of the plot |
| Dynamic Character | A character is changed, good or bad, by the events of the plot |
| Climax | The turning point in the main 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 a plot |
| Exposition | Another word for the introduction of a plot |
| Cliffhanger | A story that ends before the conflict has been fully resolved |
| Realistic Fiction | Fiction that is written to seem as if it is real |
| Credible | Believable |
| Believable | Able to be believed |
| Plausible | Believable |
| Implausible | 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 word into an adverb meaning "in this manner"; (happily=in a happy manner) |
| -ed | Suffix that makes a verb past tense |
| -chromo- | Root Word meaning "color" |
| a- and an- | Prefixes meaning "no" or "without" |
| photo- | Prefix meaning "book" |
| ped- | Prefix meaning "foot" |
| hemi- | Prefix meaning "half" |
| Genre | A category of literature into which text is classified based on its literary characteristics |