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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 who 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 | a character who is unchanged by the events in the eplot |
| dynamic character | a character is changed, for good or bad, by the events in 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 the 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 |
| 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 the 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 | "able to" |
| -able | "able to" |
| -ly | turns the root into an adverb meaning "in this smattre" |
| -ed | makes verb past tense |