NWEA 1
the main character in a piece of fiction
What is a protagonist?
the narrator's position in relation to a story being told, what the narrator telling the story can see
What is point of view?
an abbreviation formed from the initial letters of other words and pronounced as a word ie. NASA, ASAP
What an acronym?
the wide array of positive and negative associations that most words naturally carry with them
What is connotation?
If a narrator knows all about every character, they are known to be this
What is omniscient?
a group of lines in a poem
What is a stanza?
the series of events that take place in a story
What is plot?
a person, place, thing, or event used to represent something else.
What is a symbol?
the dictionary meaning of a word
What is denotation?
a word part with one vowel sound - a unit of pronunciation of a word
What is syllable?
The character/thing in conflict with the protagonist
What is a antagonist?
a certain kind or type of literature
What is genre?
the problems in a story
What is conflict?
Boom! Bang! Buzz! are examples of this device
What is onomatopoeia?
this is the central idea that runs through a novel
What is theme?
A direct detail cited right from the text sometimes in quotation marks
What is evidence?
the talking that characters do in fiction shown with "..."
What is dialogue?
It's raining cats and dogs. What does this idiom mean?
What is... it's raining really hard?
"The moon played hide and seek with the clouds" is an example of this device
What is personification?
this uses "like" or "as" to compare two unlike things
What is a simile?
To add notes to a text or diagram, to write a comment
What does it mean to annotate?
the time and place of a fictional work
What is setting?
the order of events in time sequence in which they occurred
What is chronological order?
Repetition of the same sound at the beginning of a word - ex. dark and dismal day
What is alliteration?
A visual aid to help organize information
What is a graphic organizer?