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L.A Vocabulary #1
L.A Vocabulary
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| 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 |