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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 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 the story. |
| First person point of view | The narrator is a character is inside the story and uses words like I , me, my, we. |
| Third person 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 words such as like or as. |
| Metaphor | metaphor compares two unlike things without using the words like or as. |
| Sensory Details | Words that appeal to 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 event that develop the plot and lead to the climate. |
| Climax | The events that is the turning point in the story at which the conflict is usually resolved . |
| Falling action | The event that began to conclude the story and lead to the ending. |
| Resolution | The events that conclude the story and reveals its messages. |
| Foreshadow | clues or hints in a story of events that will happen later in the plot. |
| Personification | Giving characteristics or traits to an animal or nonliving thing. |
| connotation | the feeling ideas or emotions a word makes you think of. |
| Denotation | the literal dictionary definition of a word |
| commernatry | 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 |
| theme | the central message that runs throughout a story |
| 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 | A sentence in the introduction of an essay that states the writer's position or opinion on the topic of essay. |
| 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. |