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Literature Response
Lesson 12 of Performance Coach Key Vocabulary about Writing a Response to Litera
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Character | A person, an animal, or an object that takes part in the action of a story. |
| Coma | Punctuation mark used to separate two clauses or simple sentences. |
| Conclusion | The end of a piece of writing in which the author testates his or her position and sums up the text's main points ( lesson 12) |
| Dialogue | The words that characters speak in a drama; in fiction stories, a conversation between characters, with their speech in quotation marks. |
| Narrative writing | The type of writing that tells a story, sometimes fictional and sometimes about real event. |
| Plot | The series of events in a story that includes the characters' actions, a conflict, and a resolution ( lesson 13) |
| Point of view | The perspective from which a story or poem is told by a narrator; how an author feels about a topic |
| Quotation mark | Punctuation used to show the exact words of a speaker |
| Sensory Description | Details that tel how things look, feel, sound, smell, and taste ( lesson 13) |
| Sequence of Events | The order in which events occur ( Lesson 13) |
| Setting | Where and when a story takes place ( lesson 1 ) |
| Solution | Then answer to a problem |
| Transition Word | A word or phrase that connects sentences, paragraphs, or ideas to help writing flow ( Lesson 12) |