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Unit 1 Vocab
7th Grade Vocab 1-6
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Bias | Feeling prejudice towards something/someone. |
| Perspective | How someone views something. |
| Opinion | A judgment on something based off of what you think about it. |
| Point Of View | Somebody's perspective on something. |
| Fact | A judgement based off of real evidence. |
| Characterization | Describing characteristics of a character. |
| Plot | Everything a story is made up of. |
| Setting | Where and when the story takes place. |
| Conflict | A fight over a disagreement between two characters. |
| Theme | The main topic of a story. |
| Protagonist | The main character of a story. |
| Antagonist | A character who fights against the protagonist. |
| Foil | The opposite of something else. |
| Dynamic Character | A character who changes throughout the story. |
| Static Character | A character who has little to no change throughout the story. |
| Foreshadowing | An indication of what's to come. |
| Flashback | Pauses chronological order to show the past. |
| Initiating Event | Either an idea/action/character that starts the main conflict and sets the plot events into motion. |
| Irony | When the opposite of what you expect to happen, happens. |
| Omniscient | Having infinite awareness, understanding, and insight. |
| Analyze | To study or determine the nature and relationship of the parts of something by analysis. |
| Summarize | A summary is telling the story in a few sentences. Summarizing is the act of making a summary to a story. |
| Infer | To derive as a conclusion from facts or premises. |
| Paraphrase | A restatement of a text, passage, or work giving the meaning another form. |
| Conclude | To make a decision about something. |
| Fiction | Something invented by the imagination. |
| Prose | Prose is a distinguished form of writing, where you write the way you would usually speak. |
| Verse | Verse is a distinguished form of writing, where you write in a more poetic way. |
| Fantasy | Imaginative fiction featuring especially strange settings and grotesque characters. |
| Informational | The communication or reception of knowledge or intelligence. |