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SKIMS
Language Arts
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| A struggle that takes place within the character | Internal Conflict |
| A struggle that takes place between characters, society, nature, machine, supernatural or the unknown. | External Conflict |
| It gives the picture in words of the character, object or scene | Description |
| A person or animal that takes part in the action of a literary work | Character |
| The sequence of events related to a central conflict in a story | Plot |
| The voice that speaks or narrates a poem or story | Speaker |
| language that creates a literal or concrete representation of an object or experience. | Image |
| The combination of images described in a poem or story. | Imagery |
| the difference between expectation and reality. | Irony |
| The message or lesson of a piece | Theme |
| A non-fiction narration that is biographical or autobiographical and it offers a lesson at the end | Memoir |
| The reason behind your actions | Motive |
| This is a conversation involving two or more characters | Dialogue |
| When there is a difference between what is said and what is meant | Verbal Irony (or sarcasm) |
| This is a thing that stands for—or represents—both itself and something else. | Symbol |
| The feeling of uncertainty that propels you to keep reading. | Suspense |
| showing what characters think and discussing them in terms of AFMAT and showing what others say about them, | Characterization |
| when expectations about a situation are reversed. | Situational Irony |
| The writing has more that a straightforward, literal meaning | Figures of Speech |
| A hint of what will happen next. | Foreshadowing |
| Where and when a story takes place | Setting |
| A non-fiction account of one’s own life. | Autobiography |
| First, second, third omniscient and limited omniscient are hallmarks of point-of-view. | Point of View |
| This is when a story is written in sequential order. | Chronological Order |
| This is a story within a story | Frame Story |
| How the opinion of the author comes out within a literary work. | Author's Bias |
| The emotion that the reader feels after reading a piece of literature | Mood |
| The way that the author delivers his/her literary piece. | Tone |