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Unit 1
Vocabulary from Flipped and Personal Narrative
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| paraphrase | to restate in one's own words |
| summarize | to briefly restate the main ideas of a piece of writing |
| synonym | words with similar meanings |
| antonym | words with opposite meanings |
| analyze | to study the details of a work to identify essential features or meaning |
| transitions | words or phrases that connect ideas, details, or events in writing |
| genre | a category or type of literature, such as short story, folktale, poem, novel, play |
| point of view | the perspective from which a story is told. In first-person point of view, the teller is a character in the story telling what he or she sees or knows; in third-person point of view, the narrator is someone outside of the story. |
| diction | a writer's choice of words |
| narrative | a type of writing that tells a story or describes a sequence of events in an incident |
| characterization | development of characters in a story through description, actions, thoughts, and dialogue |
| setting | the time and place in which a narrative occurs |
| internal conflict | a character struggles with his or her own needs, decisions, or emotions |
| external conflict | a character struggles with an outside force, such as another character, something in nature, or something in society |
| personal narrative | a piece of writing that describes an incident and includes a personal response to and reflection on the incident |
| dialogue | conversation between characters |
| connotation | the suggested or implied meaning or emotion associated with a word -- beyond its literal definition |
| denotation | the exact, literal meaning of a word |
| metaphor | a comparison between two unlike things in which one thing becomes another |
| sensory language | words or details that appeal to the five senses |
| theme | the central idea, message, or lesson of a literary work |
| plot | the sequence of related events that make up a story or novel |
| figurative language | imaginative language that is not meant to be interpreted literally; helps to create a picture in readers' minds |
| simile | a comparison of two unlike things using like or as |
| personification | giving objects or abstract ideas human characteristics |
| annotate | to use markings, or textcodes, in order to explain or comment on a text or literary piece |
| symbolism | when one object or idea represents another object or idea |
| sequence of events | the order in which events happen |
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