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KS state assessment
literary terms used on the Kansas State Assessment reading tests
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| analogy | a comparison between two things that are similar in some ways |
| antagonist | a person who fights, the villain, the opposition |
| cause | a person or event that makes something happen |
| effect | result, something made to happen by a person or thing |
| climax | the highest point of action or interest in a short story or play |
| character | a person or animal in a piece of literature |
| conclusion | an ending or part that brings something to a close |
| inciting incident | an event that causes all the rest of the plot to happen |
| hyperbole | exaggerated statement used for effect |
| idiom | a phrase or expression whose meaning cannot be understood from ordinary meaning or the words in it. |
| inference | the process of drawing a conclusion from reading about what will happen or why it happened; a prediction based on hints from reading |
| irony | the contrast between what is expected and what really is |