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L.A Vocabulary #1
L.A Vocabulary
Question | Answer |
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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 that participate in the plot |
Conflict | A problem the main character has to solve |
Main Character | The character that struggles to resolve the conflict |
Major Character | Character other than main character who plays a large role in the plot |
Minor Character | Character other than main character who plays a small role in the plot |
Static Character | A character that is unchanged by the events in the plot |
Dynamic Character | A character that is changed, for good or bad, by the events in the plot |
Climax | The turning point of 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 the plot |
Expostion | Another word for the introduction of the plot |
Cliffhanger | A story that ends before the conflict has fully been 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 of a word part |
Prefix | A word part that precedes the root word |
Suffix | A word 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 a past tense |