Literary Elements
Academic Vocabulary
Point of View
Reading Across Genres
Academic Vocabulary II
100

Time and place of a literary text

What is setting?

100

A struggle between two opposing forces.

What is conflict?

100

When the narrator tells the story.

What is First Person?

100

Words and phrases used are different from the literal meaning.

What is Figurative Language?

100

The most important point that can be directly stated or implied by the text evidence and important details.

What is the central idea?

200

The sequence of events that take place in literary text.

What is plot?

200

The attitude or way of viewing something.

What is a perspective?

200

The Narrator speaks directly to the reader.

What is second person?

200

What's the figurative language?

Her words were like daggers in my heart.

What is a simile?

200

A complete thought that relays a message or lesson.

What is theme?

300

Any person, figure, inanimate object, or animal with a significant role in literary text.

What is character?

300

The character or outside observer telling the story

Who is the narrator?

300

The type of narration where the narrator only knows the thoughts and feelings of one character.

What is a Third Person Limited?

300

Her words were the daggers that pierced my heart

What is metaphor?

300

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400

The events that build suspence in literary text.

What is rising action?

400

Using other words in a sentence to help figure out the meaning of an unknown word. 

What are context clues?

400

The  narrator is outside the story.

What is Third Person?

400

Her words jumped deep into my soul.

What is personification?

400

Strategies a writer or speaker uses to persuade others.

What is rhetorical appeal?

500

Communication or involvment between two or more characters.

What is interaction?

500

What an author does to create a point of view or perspective

What is development?

500

The type of narration where the narrator has unlimited all-knowing knowledge.

What is Third Person Omniscient?

500

Her words came out of the blue.

What is an idiom?

500

Features the author uses to convey meaning in text.

What is text structure?

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