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Literature Finals
Finals for literature
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Plot | The series of events in a story |
| Conflict | A struggle |
| Conflict | A struggle |
| Setting | Where and when the story takes place |
| Antagonist | The bad guys in a story |
| Protagonist | The good guys in a story |
| Synonym | Nearly the same as the other word |
| Antonym | Opposite of the other word |
| Climax | Most exciting point of the story |
| Narrator | Person telling the story |
| Nonfiction | True story |
| Context clues | Information that appears near a word and offers suggestions about its meaning |
| Theme | The main idea |
| Evidence | A body of facts indicating whether a believe is true |
| Fact/opinion | A fact is the truth and you can support it and in opinion is a belief and sometimes cannot be proven |
| Moral | A lesson |
| Short story | A story with a fully developed theme but shorter than a novel |
| Novel | Long narrative which describes Fictional characters |
| Autobiography | A biography by yourself |
| Biography | Someone's life written by someone else, narrator is also the author |
| Short story | A story with a fully developed theme but shorter than a novel |
| Parody | An imitation |
| Irony | The use of words that mean the opposite of what you really think |
| Point of view | A position or perspective from which something is considered or evaluated |