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This word is similar to disagreement, struggle, or clash, but it can occur between people, groups, or opposing forces.
What is conflict?
This literary term names the central message or larger idea a story communicates about life or human experience.
What is theme?
After reading a five-page article, Elena explains only its most important ideas in three sentences.
What is summarize?
Which part is the suffix in the word rebellion?
What is -ion
Myth, legend, fantasy, evidence.
What is evidence?
This word is similar to reason, purpose, or driving force, but it specifically explains why a person or character behaves in a particular way.
What is motivation?
This word refers specifically to the author’s or speaker’s attitude toward the subject.
What is tone?
A powerful ruler dismisses every warning because he believes he is too important to fail. His excessive pride ultimately causes his downfall.
What is hubris?
This Latin root means “death.”
What is mort?
Exposition, perspective, rising action, climax.
What is perspective?
This word is similar to power, control, or command, but it specifically means the recognized right to make decisions, enforce rules, or direct others.
What is authority?
Throughout a novel, a locked door repeatedly appears whenever the protagonist refuses to confront the truth. The door represents an idea beyond its literal meaning.
What is a symbol?
A trusted general secretly gives the enemy information that allows them to capture the city. His actions violate the loyalty others placed in him.
What is betrayal?
This Greek prefix means “first” or “foremost.”
What is proto-
Claim, evidence, inference, reasoning.
What is evidence?
This word is similar to viewpoint, outlook, or angle, but it specifically describes the position from which someone interprets events, often shaped by personal experiences and beliefs.
What is perspective?
Animals overthrow their human owner, but their struggle represents a real political revolution and the corruption of power.
What is allegory?
Archaeologists uncover organized laws, public buildings, trade networks, shared customs, and a system of government. Together, these features suggest that the people had developed this kind of complex society.
What is civilization?
This root word comes from the Latin word sequi, which means to follow
What is sequ?
Symbol, allegory, theme, setting.
What is setting?
This word is similar to fairness, equality, or lawfulness, but it does not necessarily mean everyone receives the same treatment.
What is justice?
An author never directly says that a character is insecure. Instead, the character exaggerates his achievements, interrupts others, and becomes defensive whenever he is corrected.
What is characterization?
A ruler hears a prophecy that his child will overthrow him. Every action the ruler takes to prevent that outcome instead helps bring it about.
What is fate?
This prefix is an altered form of ob-, meaning “against” or “toward.”
Deity, archetype, protagonist, villain.
What is deity?