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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 | Conservation characters have with each other |
| Internal Conflict | A problem or struggle that happens inside a character's 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 |
| Figurative Language | language used in an imaginative way to express ideas that are not literally true |
| Simile | compares two unlike things using words such as like or as |
| Methaphor | methaphor compares two unlike things without using the words like or as |
| sensory details | words that appeared to five |
| Connotation | The feelings,ideas,or emotions a word makes you think of. |
| Denotation | The exact dictionary definition of a ward |
| Exposition | The introduction to the story that usually reveals the setting, the major characters, and the conflict. |
| Rising Action | The mayor events that develop the plot and lead to the climax |
| Climax | The event that develop the plot and lead to the climax resolved |
| Falling Action | The event that began to conclude the story and lead to the ending |
| Resolution | The events that conclude the story and reveal its message |
| Theme | The central message that runs through a story |
| Personification | Giving human characteristics or traits to an animal or non living thing |
| 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 opinions |
| Sublot | The secondary plot that happens along with a main plot |
| Hyperbole | A type of figurative language that makes an exaggerated statement which is not meant to be taken literally |
| Non-fiction | A type 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 |