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ELA Review Terms
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| person, place, or object that represents something beyond itself | symbol |
| statement that reflects personal view or belief | opinion |
| contrast between what is expected and what exists | irony |
| feeling that a literary work conveys to readers | mood |
| the associated meaning of a word; can be positive or negative | connotation |
| hint or suggestion of an event to come in a story | foreshadowing |
| expresses the writer's attitude toward his/her subject | tone |
| statement which can be proven true; nonfiction | fact |
| break in a story that relives a past event | flashback |
| message about life or human nature that exists in a story; moral or lesson | theme |
| one or more words with similar meanings | synonym |
| the events of a story | plot |
| the driving force of a story; the struggle between opposing characters or forces | conflict |
| a word opposite in meaning to another | antonym |
| the turning point; a shift in plot; the story takes a new direction | climax |
| the beginning of a story; setting, characters, and main conflict are introduced | exposition |
| feeling of growing tension or excitement | suspense |
| opposing character or force in a story; source of conflict for the protagonist | antagonist |
| character with multi-dimensions; reader sees many sides | round character |
| type or category of literature | genre |
| character experiences change from beginning to end in a story | dynamic character |
| a restatement of text in reader's own words | paraphrase |
| words surrounding a word or phrase that clarify the meaning | context |
| to state or express in shortened form | summarize |
| narrator is all-knowing; has ability to report inner thoughts of all characters | omniscient narrator |
| narrator is a character within the story | first-person narrator |
| narrator is completely outside the story | third-person narrator |
| to examine in order to note differences | contrast |
| arranged in order of time of occurrence | chronological |
| to conclude or judge from evidence | infer |
| to examine in order to note similarities | compare |
| an exaggeration | hyperbole |
| comparison between unlike things that uses the connecting words "like" or "as" | simile |
| a tendency that prevents unprejudiced consideration | bias |
| a word that conveys a sound | onomatopoeia |
| comparison between unlike things | metaphor |
| a statement that cannot be taken literally; a figure of speech or expression | idiom |
| giving human qualities to a nonhuman thing | personification |
| allusion | a reference to a movie, song, or another piece of literature within a text |
| thesis | the main idea statement of a piece of writing |
| counterclaim | to express an opposing viewpoint |
| claim | to state that something is the case; to share a main idea in an argumentative piece of writing |
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