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Vocabulary
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Plot | The events that happen in the beginning, middle, and end of a story. |
| Setting | The time and place of a story. |
| Dialogue | Conversation characters have with each other. |
| Internal conflict | a problem or struggle that happens inside a characters mind or heart. |
| External conflict | a problem or struggle between a character and something outside of them. |
| Narrator | The person or voice telling a story. |
| First person POV | The narrator is a character in inside the story and uses words like I,me,my,we. |
| Third person POV | The narrator is outside the story and uses words like he,she,they,them. |
| Simile | compares two unlike things using words such as like or as. |
| Metaphor | metaphor compares two unlike things without using the words like or as. |
| Figurative language | language used in a imaginative way to express ideas that are not literally true. |
| sensory details | words that appeal to the five senses and or language that allows the reader to create mental images. |
| Exposition | The introduction to the story that usually reveals the setting the major character and the conflict. |
| Rising Action | The major events that develop the plot and lead to the climax. |
| Climax | The events that is the turning point in the story at which the conflict is usually resolved. |
| Falling Action | The events that begin to conclude the story and lead to the ending. |
| Resolution | The events that conclude the story and reveal its message. |
| Foreshadowing | Refers to clues or hints signaling events that will occur later in the plot of the story. |
| Personification | is figurative languages that gives human characteristics to an animal or nonliving thing for example the became of the flashlight danced crazily. |
| Theme | The central message in a story |
| REsolution | The events that conclude the story and reveal its message. |
| connotation | The fillings ideas or emotions a word makes you think of. |
| subplot | the secondary plot that happens along with the main plot |
| hyperbole | a type of figurative language that makes an exaggerated statement which Is not meant to be taken literally |
| Thesis(statement) | A sentence in the introduction of an essay that states the writer's position or opinion on the topic of the essay. |
| Memoir | A form of narrative writing written from the perspective of the author about an important time in their life. |
| Non-fiction | A type of writing that is based on real events and real people. |
| Central Idea | The main message a writer wants readers to understand from a text. |