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**8th grade 2015 Make a set of "flashcards" for this Language Arts vocabulary.

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Term
Definition
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 who participate in the plot.  
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Conflict   a problem the main character struggles to resolve.  
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Main character   the character who struggles to resolve a conflict.  
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Major character   character other than the main character who plays a large role in the plot.  
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Minor character   character other than the main character that plays a small role in the plot.  
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Dynamic character   a character is changed, for good or bad, by the events in the plot.  
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Static character   a character who is unchanged by the events in the plot.  
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Climax   the turning point in the main character's struggle to resolve a 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 a plot.  
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Exposition   another word for the introduction of a plot.  
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Cliffhanger   a story that ends before the conflict has been fully 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 word part.  
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Prefix   a word part that precedes the root word.  
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Suffix   a word part that follows a 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 past tense.  
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Chromo   without color  
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