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Language Arts Vocab
**8th grade 2015 Make a set of "flashcards" for this Language Arts vocabulary.
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 a 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 that plays a small role in the plot. |
Dynamic character | a character is changed, for good or bad, by the events in the plot. |
Static character | a character who is unchanged by the events in the plot. |
Climax | the turning point in the main character's struggle to resolve a 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 a 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. |
Chromo | without color |