Summary and Figurative Meanings
Setting
Plot
Structures of Text
Literary Point of View
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A {?} is a shorter way to tell about a passage.
What is summary?
100
{?} is the time, place, and circumstances in which a story takes place. It tells the reader where and when the story occurs.
What is Setting?
100
The {?} is the sequence of events that happen in a story.
What is plot?
100
A piece of writing that is true.
What is nonfiction?
100
This point of view uses "I" or "we" and often is used when someone is stating an opinion or sharing a feeling.
What is first-person? example: I like my freshly-painted bedroom so much that I want to jump for joy!
200
The summary tells the most {?} details or events of a story or article.
What is important?
200
The setting of the story can also determine who the {?}(characters that oppose the main character) of the story will be.
What are antagonists?
200
Every plot is made up of a series of {?} and effects.
What are causes?
200
Written in short lines, and the lines often follow a rhyming and/or meter pattern.
What is poetry?
200
In this point of view the narrator is a non-participant in the story and only knows the thoughts and feelings of a single character.
What is third-person limited? example: Marco felt like he had done something good for the community. He felt like a helper and wanted to do more good things to assist those in need. But how did everybody else feel? How did Hannah and Zach feel about their work? He would have to talk to them to find out.
300
The summary does not tell {?} of the details of a passage.
What is all?
300
A main component of setting include (out of five):
What is 1 - place (geographical location) 2 - time 3 - weather 4 - social conditions 5 - mood (atmosphere)
300
Usually a plot will have {this many} parts...
What are five? 1 - the exposition, 2 - the rising action, 3 - the climax, 4 - the falling action, and the 5 - resolution or denouement.
300
The pattern of rhyme in a poem.
What is rhyme scheme?
300
This point of view uses "he", "she", or "they". "It" is also used when talking about a thing instead of a person.
What is third-person? example: Sally rode home as fast as she could. Then she jumped off her bike and ran into the house to see what was going on.
400
{?} is a figure of speech in which things are given human qualities or are shown as having human form.
What is Personification? examples: The thunder boomed angrily. The moon smiled down on Earth.
400
A main component (out of five) of setting include...
What is 1 - place (geographical location) 2 - time 3 - weather 4 - social conditions 5 - mood (atmosphere)
400
A struggle or a problem that the character has to solve.
What is conflict?
400
A division of a poem made by arranging the lines into units separated by a space.
What is a stanza?
400
This point of view uses the word "you" and is used for giving directions or anytime a speaker directly addresses someone.
What is second-person? example: "You should really come and join the group because you would probably like it a lot."
500
A {?} is a comparison between two unlike objects using the words "like" or "as."
What is simile? example: Angus Scrimm was as tall as a tree.
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What is 1 - place (geographical location) 2 - time 3 - weather 4 - social conditions 5 - mood (atmosphere
500
Explains how the conflict is resolved and what happens to the characters after the story ends.
What is resolution or denouement?
500
The words spoken by characters in a play.
What is dialogue?
500
The narrator is a non-participant in the story. The narrator is also able to see into and have unlimited knowledge about any or all of the characters.
What is third-person omniscient point of view? example: Marco felt like he had done something good for the community. He felt like a helper and wanted to do more good things to assist those in need. Marco wouldn't know it until he talked to them, but Hannah and Zach felt the same way, too. Hannah had not been able to sleep. She was excited at the thought of expanding their project. She was sure they could provide even more toys for the children next year! Zach was already planning ways to raise more money and get more people involved. He had even had a dream about how to do it!
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