plot - sequence of events in a fiction text, climax - turning point of the story; character comes face to face with the antagonist, resolution - all the pieces of the story come together, rising action - similar to a stair case; tension rising; character begins to face challenges, falling action - character deals with the aftermath of what happens in the climax, exposition - characters, setting, and basic situation are revealed, text structures - the method in which a author organizes a story, compare and contrast - explains how two things are alike and different, tone - author's attitude, mood - reader's reaction, alliteration - the repetition of sounds in words, similie - comparison of two things using "like or "as", metaphor - comparison of two things without using "like or "as"; says something is something, onomatopoeia - words that sound like what they say, problem and solution - recognize there is an issue and someone works to resolve them, central ideas - a brief, overall summary of what the entire story is about., trace - outline, list of steps, analyze - break apart, study the pieces, infer - read between the lines, evaluate - judge, give value, point of view - a particular attitude or way of considering a matter., 1st Person POV - the narrator is a character in the story telling it from their perspective, 2nd Person POV - This narrative voice implies that the reader is either the protagonist or a character in the story and the events are happening to them., 3rd Person POV - the narrator exists outside the events of the story, and relates the actions of the characters by referring to their names, poetry - literary work in which special intensity is given to the expression of feelings and ideas by the use of distinctive style and rhythm, rhythm  - a strong, regular, repeated pattern of movement or sound, rhyme scheme - the ordered pattern of rhymes at the ends of the lines of a poem or verse. ABAB, annotation - a note of explanation or comment added to a text or diagram, extraneous - irrelevant or unrelated to the subject being dealt with, genre - a category of artistic composition, as in music or literature, characterized by similarities in form, style, or subject matter., imagery - visually descriptive or figurative language, summary - a brief statement or account of the main points of something, diction - the choice and use of words and phrases in speech or writing, evidence - information indicating whether a belief or proposition is true or valid, theme - the subject of a talk, a piece of writing, a person's thoughts, characterization - the creation or construction of a fictional character, motif - dominant idea in an artistic or literary composition, protagonist - the leading character or one of the major characters in a drama, movie, novel, or other fictional text, antagonist - a person who actively opposes or is hostile to someone or something; an adversary, archetype - a very typical example of a certain person or thing; a type, symbolism - the use of symbols to represent ideas or qualities, static character - dramatic character who doesn't undergo significant internal change over the course of a story, dynamic character - dramatic character who undergoes a significant internal change, such as a change in personality or attitude, over the course of a story, round character - complex and multifaceted character in a story who seems lifelike to readers, flat character - a one-dimensional character with limited personality traits and a lack of dynamic growth, indirect characterization - a literary device that reveals a character's personality traits without explicitly stating them., direct characterization - a literary device that allows an author to explicitly describe a character's traits to the reader, conflict - a serious disagreement or argument,, figurative language - a type of communication that does not use a word's strict or realistic meaning, hyperbole - exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literally, denotation - dictionary definition of a word, idiom - a word or phrase that is not meant to be taken literally (ex. pull yourself together), personification - giving human qualities to nonhuman things , connotation - an idea or feeling that a word invokes in addition to its literal, literal - epresenting the exact words of the original text, foreshadowing - e a warning or indication of (a future event), in media res - open in the middle of a story instead of the beginning, myth - a widely held but false belief or idea., assimilation - the process of taking in and fully understanding information or ideas, perspective - a particular attitude toward something, aesthetic - used to talk about beauty or art, and people's appreciation of beautiful things, setting - where something takes place, allusion - figure of speech that references a famous person, place, event or literary work, allegory - a story with a deeper meaning that at first glance, fiction - describes imaginary events and people, citation - a quotation from or reference to a book, paper, or author, especially in a scholarly work, nonfiction - writing that is based on facts, real events, and real people,, expository - ntended to explain or describe something, claim - state or assert that something is the case, typically without providing evidence or proof, chronological - he arrangement of things following one after another in time:, bias - prejudice in favor of or against one thing, person, or group, rhetoric - the art of persuasion, syntax - the arrangement of words and phrases to create well-formed sentences in a language, fallacy - a mistaken belief, especially one based on unsound argument., counterclaim - a claim made to rebut a previous claim; the opposite side, implication - the conclusion that can be drawn from something although it is not explicitly stated., transition - he process or a period of changing from one state or condition to another., flashback - scene in a movie, novel, etc., set in a time earlier than the main story, epilogue - a section or speech at the end of a book or play that serves as a comment on or a conclusion to what has happened., prologue - a separate introductory section of a literary or musical work, thesis - a statement or theory that is put forward as a premise to be maintained or proved., paraphrase - xpress the meaning of (the writer or speaker or something written or spoken) using different words, especially to achieve greater clarity., parallel structure - a grammatical pattern used in sentences to show that two or more ideas are equally important, adjectival phrase - a phrase that's headed by an adjective and provides context, clarity, or details that support that adjective, prepositional phrase - a group of words that begins with a preposition and ends with a noun, pronoun, or noun phrase, absolute phrase - a group of words that modifies an entire sentence, rather than just a single word, adverbial clause - a dependent clause that functions as an adverb in a sentence., participial phrase - a group of words that contains a participle, modifier, and a noun or pronoun phrase, euphemism - a mild or indirect word or expression substituted for one considered to be too harsh or blunt when referring to something unpleasant or embarrassing, oxymoron - a combination of contradictory words (as cruel kindness), noun phrase - a phrase (a group of words) headed by a noun., relative clause - a clause in a sentence that cannot exist independently, begins with a relative pronoun, independent clause - a clause that could be used by itself as a simple sentence but that is part of a larger sentence., dependent clause - a clause that does not form a simple sentence by itself and that is connected to the main clause of a sentence, verb phrase - a group of words that functions as a verb in a sentence and conveys the action or state of being., conventions - Rules for writing that make it clear and comprehensible.,

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