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Mod. 2 Les1-2 Vocab
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| setting | when and where a story, poem, or event occurs |
| environments | all living and non-living parts of a habitat |
| science fiction | genre of literature; often focuses on science or technology, with settings in a different time, world, or dimension |
| characters | people in stories |
| speaker | people in poems |
| frail | lacking strength or health |
| civilization | an advanced society with a government and culture |
| vital | needed for survival |
| immense | enormous |
| Venus | a planet in our solar system ; second from our sun |
| sensory details | use the five senses (sight, touch, sound, taste, and smell) to add depth of the writing |
| figurative language | a word or phrase that does not have its normal meaning, to make a writing more interesting |
| simile | a way of describing something by comparing it to something else using like or as |
| metaphor | a comparison which is not literally true, suggests what something is like by comparing it with something else with similar characteristics |
| consequence | result or importance |
| tableau | a group of models or motionless figures representing a scene from a story or from history |
| conflict | a problem |
| event timeline | sequence of events in a story or poem |
| summary | a brief description of the characters, setting, major events, and resolution in a story |
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