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ELA VOCAB WORDS
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Antagonist | Person who opposes the protagonist or tries to prevent the protagonist from reaching their goal |
| Characterization | The method a writer uses to communicate info about characters two reader author tells the reader directly about a character; direct characterization author shows character in action... indirect characterization |
| Climax | The moment when the action comes to its highest of dramatic conflict most often this occurs before the actual ending of the story |
| Complication | Any obstacle that increases the tension of the story conflict |
| Conflict | Involves a struggle between two opposing forces the four major terms: person versus nature person versus person person versus self person versus society |
| Description | Representation of the character scenes or action used to make the story more vivid |
| Dialogue | The actual words of the character speak authors use dialogue to portray characters and to dramatize the conflict |
| Dramatic irony | A technique that entries a suspense by the letting the readers know more about the dramatic situation and then the characters know |
| Exposition | Background material about the characters setting in dramatic situation with the author introducing the essentials of the story |
| Falling action | This part of the story following the climax and leading to the resolution in which there's a sharp decline in dramatic tension not every story has this |
| Foreshadowing | A writing technique that gives the reader clues about the events that will happen later |
| Hyperbole | An exaggerated statement used to make a strong effect |
| Inciting Force | The event or character that triggers the conflict |
| Irony | A particular tone created when what occurs is the opposite of what you expect |
| Mood | The overall feeling created by the author's choice of words |
| Narrator | The speaker who tells the story |
| Point of view | The perspective from which the story is told |
| Protagonist | The central characters of the story has a goal that they are trying to reach |
| Resolution | The part of the story is how the stories wrapped up and it never has to be a happy ending another term for this word is denouement |
| Rising action | The part of the story in which the tension Rises rising actions come after the insight and forced and builds the story to its highest point of tension also known as the climax |
| Setting | The environment in which the story takes place |
| Structure | The framework that determines how a story is put together |
| Style | The characteristic ways then an individual uses language |
| Symbol | An image object character or action that stands for the idea Beyond its literal meaning |
| Theme | A stories deeper meaning |
| Tone | The clues in a story that suggests the writers own attitude towards the element of the story |
| Understatement | A figure of speech in which the speaker says a less than what he or she actually feels |
| Verbal irony | When the speaker says one thing but means/feels the opposite |
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