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Vocabulary
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Plot | The event that happens in the beginning, middle, and end of a story. |
| Setting | The place and time of a story. |
| Dialogue | Conversation characters have 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 point of view | The narrator is a character inside the story and uses words like I, me, my, we. |
| Third person point of view | The narrator is outside the story and uses words like he,she, they, them. |
| Similie | comparing two unlike things using words such as like or as. |
| Metaphor | metaphor compares two unlike things without using the words as or like. |
| 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 characters, and the conflict. |
| Rising action | The major events that develop the plot and lead to the climax. |
| Climax | The event that is the turning point in the story, at which the conflict is usually resolved |
| Falling action | The events |
| connotation | The feelings, ideas,or emotions a word makes you think of. |
| denotation | The literal dictionary definition of a word |
| resolution | The events that conclude the story and reveal its ending. |
| Theme | The central message that runs throughout a story |
| personification | giving human characteristics or traits to an animal or non living thing |
| commentary | the readers own interpretation of what is happening within a story. this goes beyond the surface-level of the text and can include the readers personal opinions |
| 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. |
| Nonfiction | 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. |
| memoir | A form of narrative writing , written from the perspective of the author, about an important time in their life, |
| Thesis (statement) | A sentence in the introduction of an essay that states the writer's position or opinion on the topic of the essay. |