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L.A Vocabulary

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Plot   Action  
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Plot Line   A graphic organizer that illustrates the pattern of action in a short story  
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Setting   Time and place the story occurs  
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Character   People or animals that participate in the plot  
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Conflict   A problem the main character has to solve  
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Main Character   The character that struggles to resolve the conflict  
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Major Character   Character other than main character who plays a large role in the plot  
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Minor Character   Character other than main character who plays a small role in the plot  
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Static Character   A character that is unchanged by the events in the plot  
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Dynamic Character   A character that is changed, for good or bad, by the events in the plot  
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Climax   The turning point of the main character's struggle to resolve the conflict  
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Resolution   The point of the plot in which the conflict has been resolved  
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Denouement   A snazzy French word for the resolution of the plot  
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Expostion   Another word for the introduction of the plot  
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Cliffhanger   A story that ends before the conflict has fully been resolved  
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Realistic Fiction   Fiction that is written to seem as if it is real  
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Credible   Believable  
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Believable   Able to be believed  
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Plausible   Believable  
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Implausible   Unbelievable  
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Incredible   Unbelievable  
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Appositive   A noun or noun phrase that renames the noun or noun phrase immediately before it  
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Direct Address   A person is directly addressed, or spoken to directly, in a sentence  
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Root Word   The base of a word part  
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Prefix   A word part that precedes the root word  
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Suffix   A word that follows the root word  
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-Cred-   Root word meaning "believe"  
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In-   Prefix meaning "not"  
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Im-   Prefix meaning "not"  
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Un-   Prefix meaning "not"  
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Non-   Prefix meaning "not"  
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-Ible   Suffix meaning "able to"  
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-Able   Suffix meaning "able to"  
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-Ly   Suffix that turns the root into an adverb meaning" in this manner";(happily = in a happy manner)  
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-Ed   Suffix that makes a verb a past tense  
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