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Language Arts
SMART Goal Vocabulary
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| antagonist | the character that opposes the main character |
| chronological | the text is organized according to time |
| climax | the turning point in a narrative at which the rising action turns around into a falling action: the point at which the conflict is the most intense |
| composition | a piece of writing |
| connotation | an emotional feeling connected to a word |
| denotation | the literal dictionary definition of a word |
| dynamic character | a type of character that develops or changes emotionally |
| edit | a stage of the writing process in which a writer works to improve a draft by correcting errors in conventions (spelling, punctuation, capitalization) |
| exposition | the part of the story where the characters are introduced, the background is explained, and the setting is described |
| falling action | all events after the climax and leading to the resolution |
| figurative language | the author's use of comparisons, images, and language that is not literal |
| first person point of view | the narrator is a part of the story or a character in the story |
| flashback | when a character remembers something from the past |
| foreshadow | give readers clues about what may happen later in the story |
| formulate | to create |
| idiom | a group of words whose meaning is different from the ordinary meaning of words; not literal |
| irony | what happens is the opposite of what you expect |
| literal language | language that means exactly what it says |
| oxymoron | figurative language that combines words that have nearly opposite meanings "alone together" |
| parallel structure | two or more words, phrases, or clauses that are similar in length and grammatical form |
| paraphrase | restating information in ones own words |
| plagiarism | when a writer copies another writers language or ideas and calls the work his or her own |
| proposition/support | the text is organized by introduction and supporting an argument |
| protagonist | the central, main character of a story |
| resolution | the end of the conflict |
| revise | the process of rereading a text and making changes (in content, organization, sentence structures, and word choice) to improve it |
| rising action | all events leading to the climax |
| second person point of view | the story told in the perspective of "you" |
| sequence | the text is organized step-by-step |
| spatial | the text is organized by detailing a space |
| static character | a type of character that does not change |
| theme | a measure about life or human nature that the author wants the reader to understand |
| third person limited point of view | the narrator knows the thoughts and feelings of only one character, but describes the actions of other characters |
| third person omniscient point of view | the narrator knows the thoughts and feelings of more than one character |
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