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Literary Elements
Literary Elements and important words from reading
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| exposition | beginning or introduction to a story |
| setting | when and where a story takes place |
| rising action | introduces the central conflict in a plot |
| suffice | be enough |
| climax | the high point in the plot |
| impromptu | unplanned or unscheduled |
| hordes | large, moving crowds |
| bodega | small grocery store in a Latino neighborhood |
| tentatively | hesitantly, with uncertainty |
| falling action | the events in which the problem begins to get solved in a story |
| resolution | the end or outcome of the story |
| tenement | old, run-down apartment house |
| plot | the sequence of events in a story |
| key | low-lying island |
| theme | the lesson or message in a story |
| receding | moving backward |
| edible | able to be eaten |
| suffice | enough or ample amount |
| foreshadowing | the author's use of clues to hint at what might happen later in the story |
| short story | a brief work of fiction |
| flashback | a scene within a story that interrupts the sequence of events to relate events that occurred in the past |
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