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100
The series of related events that make up a story.
What is plot?
100
When the character's problems are solved and the story ends.
What is resolution?
100
Using words or sentences to help define an unknown word.
What is context clues?
100
The order in which events happen.
What is sequential/chronological order?
100
Small problems start to come up, introducing us to the main conflict.
What is rising action?
200
The time and place in which the events of a work of literature occur.
What is setting?
200
The truth about life revealed in a piece of literature. The author's message or moral.
What is theme?
200
Educated guesses based on the evidence available.
What is inference?
200
When a sound is repeated through out the selection.
What is alliteration?
200
A figure of speech in which a term or phrase is applied to something to which it is not literally applicable in order to suggest a resemblance.
What is metaphor?
300
A struggle or clash between two opposing forces.
What is conflict?
300
A judgment based on facts and details in a literary work.
What is conclusion?
300
Any force that drives or moves the character to behave in a certain way. Why a character does what they do.
What is motivation?
300
A figure of speech in which a nonhuman or nonliving thing has a human trait or does a human action.
What is personification?
300
"It is raining cats and dogs" is an example of this.
What is an idiom?
400
A person or animal who takes part in the action of the story, play, or other work of literary work.
What is character?
400
This word is to ________ as _______ is to ________ is an example of this.
What is an analogy?
400
The person telling the story.
What is the narrator?
400
The writer shows you what the character is like through a written discription.
What is direct characterization?
400
A prose account that is made up rather than true.
What is fiction?
500
The most emotional or suspenseful part of the story.
What is climax?
500
The writer shows you what the character is like through the character's thoughts, actions, and words.
What is indirect characterization?
500
This is the most important concept in a passage.
What is the main idea?
500
A figure of speech in which two essentially unlike things are compared, often in a phrase introduced by like or as.
What is simile?
500
This is used to explain how two or more things are alike in a literary work. Not metaphor or simili.
What is to compare?
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