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Goodson ELA LT 21-40
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Conflict | a struggle between opposing forces. An external conflict involves a character who struggles against a force outside himself. An internal conflict is one that occurs within a character. ex. man vs nature man vs himself |
| Man vs man | character against character |
| man vs nature | man mad at nature |
| man vs self | man against himself |
| man vs society | man against society |
| Connotation | ideas of feeling, associated with the word ex. home, comfort, security |
| Denotation | dictionary definition of a word ex. word home is dwelling place, conclusion is warm, comport (jaden you can't spell, what is this suppose to say) |
| Critiquing | a careful judgement in which you give yoru opion about the good and bad parts of something. ex. having to fix something that is very small |
| Dialogue | written conversation between two or more characters ex. you are in dialogue when texting with someone |
| Diction | word choice, what words to convey and how to say it. can help you know author tone and purpose. ex. how the author exposes' himself. |
| Figurative language | language that communicates meanings beyond the literal meaning of words ex. Sussie is the sunshine to my day |
| Flashback | an inturputation of the action to present event that took place at earlier time. ex. when you are sitting in math and think about past weekend |
| Foreshadowing | a writer provides hints that suggest future events in a story. It creates suspend and makes the reager eager to find out what will happen. ex. A character is cleaning a gun and later in the story someone is killed. |
| Genre | a category that literature classified ex. Dr. Suse action |
| Fiction | in the form of prose especially short storys and novels with imaginary people. ex. people we meat on vacation is fiction |
| Realistic Fiction | a genre of fiction that is set in the modern present with human ex. B.F.G. |
| Mystery | involves the search for answers around them ex. An then there was none |
| Adventure | Consist of incredible journeys of the struggle to survive ex. jungle book |
| Historical fiction | a genre of fiction set in the past. real people, places and things ex. Wendys war |
| Science fiction | genre of fiction that is set in the future and based on the impact of real ex. 1984 Book |
| Dystopian fiction | set in the past apocalypses society or future society in the law. ex. Hands maid tail |
| Fantasy | a genre of fiction that contain magical elements such as non-existent worlds, talking animals and other creatures. ex. Harry potter |
| Nonfiction | pose writing that is based on facts, real people, such as biography or history. ex. facts about snakes |
| Informational | writing that informs. it is a tpye of nonfiction writing, which means it is factual. ex. Book about Bees |