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List 3 (vocab)
Vocabulary
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Literary | writing that includes poems,plays,short stories,scripts,and novels |
| Third Person Point of View | when the narrator observes the actions and events of the story |
| Third Person Pronouns | he,she,him,her,they,and them |
| Antagonist | the bad guy of the story |
| Protagonist | the good guy of the story |
| Round Character | fully developed personality showing many sides |
| Dynamic Characters | a dramatic change in attitude or personality |
| Idiom | a phrase or expression associated with a specific people or culture |
| Dialect | the idioms and pronunciations used in spoken and written language in different regions of a country |
| Legend | a story that may have some truth but focuses on exaggeration |
| Myth | Stories with supernatural beings |
| Fable | stories that teach a lesson |
| Personification | Giving human qualities to inanimate objects |
| Imagery | When the author paints a picture in the readers mind |
| Simile | comparison between two things using the words like or as |
| Metaphor | comparison between two things |
| Symbol | represents a person,place,thing or idea |
| Hyperbole | exaggeration |
| Free Verse | poetry without a set meter or rhyme |
| Verse | poetry with a set meter or rhyme |
| Stanza | a group of consecutive lines in a poem |
| Sonnet | a group of 14 lines with length and rhymes that follow several patterns |
| Ballad | a song or poem that tells a story |
| Alliteration | the repeating of initial constant sounds in words in a line of writing |
| Onomatopoeia | the use of a word whose sound suggests its meaning |