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Literature Terms 5K
Meanings of Terms used in Language Arts and Literature
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| analogy | A similarity between things that are otherwise different. |
| antonym | A word that is the opposite of another word (big/little) |
| author's purpose | The reason the author created the work (for example: to entertain, to persuade, to inform) |
| bibliography | A list of books or articles |
| cause | Something that happens. |
| effect | What happens as a result of something else |
| character | One of the persons in a book, story, or play |
| climax | A moment of great intensity in a story, especially when a character makes a major decision or notices a significant change in himself |
| compare/contrast | Looking for ways two or more objects or ideas are alike (compare) or different (contrast) |
| comprehension | The ability to understand the meaning of a word, idea, or text. |
| conflict | The opposition or problems between characters in a book or play |
| expository | non-fiction writing that explains something |
| fact | something that is known to be true |
| opinion | thoughts based on one's own beliefs or experiences |
| homograph | one of two or more words that are spelled the same, but have different meanings |
| homophone | one of two or more words that sound the same, but are spelled differently and have different meanings |
| idiom | an expression that does not mean exactly what it says, "raining cats and dogs" |
| metaphor | a figure of speech in which a comparison is implied by analogy, but is not stated, "You are a bull in a china store." |
| inference | a statement created from using information from the text and a reader's prior knowledge |
| onomatopoeia | words of which the sound suggests the meaning, "pow," "clank," "buzz" |
| personification | a figure of speech in which animals, ideas, things, etc., are represented as having human qualities |
| plot | the structure of the action of a story; includes conflict, rising action, climax, resolution (denouement) and conclusion |
| setting | the time and place in which a narrative occurs |
| to entertain | the author's purpose of writing a text, such as a fictional narrative story |
| to inform | the author's purpose for writing a text, particularly a non-fiction expository or a technical manual |
| to persuade | the author's purpose for writing a text when she or he wants to convince the readers to agree with her or him |
| conflict | a disagreement or problem between the main character of the story and another character, nature (storms), against self, against society and it's expectations |
| text features | characteristics of writing, especially non-fiction, which includes maps, bold-type, italics, parentheses, cut-outs, photos and captions, headings, subheadings, titles |
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