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la review
LA review 4 sol
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| plot | events in story |
| setting | where/when story takes place |
| character | who story is about |
| antagonist | villan |
| protagonist | hero/heroine |
| dynamic(round) character | character who changes a lot |
| static(flat) character | character who doesn't change |
| initiating event | 1st event in story |
| rising action | actions that lead to conflict |
| conflict | main problem |
| internal conflict | struggle that takes place in mind |
| external conflict | struggle that takes place with someone/something else |
| complications | little problems |
| climax | exciting part of story |
| falling action | tells how problem is solved |
| resolution | end of story |
| point of view | who is telling story |
| 1st person | is about narrator |
| 3rd person limited | knows 1 character only |
| 3rd person omniscient | all knowing |
| tone | writer's attitude toward story |
| mood | feeling reader gets |
| theme | moral/life lesson |
| auhor's purpose | why author writes story |
| sequence of events | order in which things happen |
| inference | guess based on clues |
| drama | plays-scripted |
| peotry | can be about anything |
| prose | all other writings |
| generalization | broad statement |
| valid generalization | is accepted |
| faulty generalization | is false |
| folk tales | passed down over generations |
| fables | brief stories; animals talk |
| tall tales | NOT true |
| analogy | shows things in common bet. words |
| appositive | adds details |
| main idea | topic sentence |
| plot structure | way author develops conflict |
| independent clause | IS a sentence |
| dependent clause | IS NOT a sentence |
| grabber | hooks readers |
| transitions | show how ideas are connected |
| personification | human characteristics to nonhuman things |
| alliteration | repetition of beginning sounds |
| onomatopoeia | words that make sound |
| simile | comparison using like or as |
| metaphor | comparison that doesn't use like or as |
| idiom | expression that can't be interpreted literally |
| hyperbole | VERY big exaggeration |
| cliches | common idioms(expression that can't be interpreted literally) |
| figurative language | oppo. of literal language |
| literal language | exact; no exaggeration |
| imagery | applies to readers senses |
| degrees of comparison | positive, comarative, superlative |
| adjective | describes noun |
| noun | person, place, thing |
| dialogue | conversation |
| symbolism | use of symbols to represent emotions, ideas |
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