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vocabulary
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| plot | The events that happened at the beginning, middle, and end of the story. |
| Setting | The time and place of the story. |
| Dialogue | Conversations characters have with each other. |
| simile | compares two unlike things using words such as like or as |
| metaphor | Methadone Compares two unlike things without using the words like or as |
| Figura language | Language used in an imaginary way to express ideas that are not literally true. |
| connotation | The feelings, ideas, or emotions a word makes you think of. |
| denotation | The exact dictionary definition of a word. |
| Exposition | the introduction to the story that usually reveals the setting the major characters in the conflict. |
| Rising action | The major events that develop the plot and Lead to the climax |
| Climax | The event that is the Turning plot in the story, at which the conflict is usually resolved |
| Falling action | The event that happened after the climax and starts to lead towards the ending |
| Resolution | The events that conclude the story and reveals its ending |
| Theme | the central message that runs throughout a story |
| Personification | Giving human characteristic or traits to an animal or non-living theme |
| Commentary | The reader's own interpretation of what is happening within a story. This goes beyond the surface level of the text and can include the reader's personal opinion |
| Subplot | The secondary plot that happened along with the main plot |
| Hyperbole | Of figurative language that makes an exaggerated statement which is not meant to be taken literally |
| Internal conflict | A problem or struggle that happens inside a character 's mind or heart |
| External conflict | A problem or struggled between it character and something outside of them |
| Narrator | The speaker 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 use his words like he, she, they, them. |
| Sensory details | words that appeal to the five senses and/or language that allows the reader to create mental images. |
| 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. |
| 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 |