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* Cook - Reading Ele
* Cook - Reading Elements
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Antagoinist | A charcter in force with a main character or protagonist |
| Autobiography | A story of the writers own life told by the writer |
| Biography | A form of non fiction in which a writer tells a story about another person |
| Character | A person or an animal that takes part in a story |
| Climax | A high point in the action of the plot |
| Conflict | Struggle between opposing forces |
| Dialect | A form of language spoken by people |
| Dialogue | a conversation between two or more characters |
| Drama | A story made to be preformed by actors |
| Exposition | This is a part that introduces characters |
| External Conflict | When a charcter struggles against a force |
| Fable | A brief story or poem |
| Fantasy | A highly imanginative writing that contains elements not in real life |
| Fiction | A not true story something that can't be proven |
| Folk Tale | A story composed orally and then passed down to generations by mouth |
| Foreshawdoing | An authors use of clues to tell whats going to happen later on in the book |
| Genre | A division type of literature |
| Haiku | A three line Japanesse verse form when the first and third lines is 5 syllables and the second line is 7 syllables |
| Hero/Heroine | A charcters whos actions are inspiring |
| Historical Fiction | Real events, places, or people are incorporated in a fictional made up story |
| Internal Conflict | A place within the mind of a character |
| Irony | A contradiction between what happens and what is expected |
| Legend | A widley told story about the past |
| Main Character | The main person in a story |
| Metaphor | A figure of speech in which something is described as though it were something else |
| Mood | A feeling created in the reader |
| Moral | A lesson taught by literary work |
| Motive | A reason that explains a characters thoughts or feelings |
| Myth | A fictional tale that explains the actions of gods or heros or the origins of elements of nature |
| Narrative | A story that can be fiction or non fiction |
| Non Fiction | A story that is true and can be proven |
| Onomatopoeia | A use of words that imitate sounds |
| Oral Tradition | The passing of stories, songs, and poems from generation to gerneration by mouth |
| Personification | A type of figurtiave language |
| Perspective | The way a guy or girl sees things |
| Plot | The sequence of events in which each event results from a previous one and causes the next |
| Point of View | The perspective or the vantage point |
| Protagonist | The main character in literary work |
| Resolution | The outcome of the conflict in the plot |
| Science Fiction | Combines Science fanatsy and fiction |
| Sensory Language | Writing or speech that appeals to one or more of the five senses |
| Simile | A figure of speech that uses like or as |
| Symbolism | The use of symbols |
| Theme | A central message, concern, or purpose in literary work |
| Tone | The writers attitude toward the writing |
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