Figuartive Langauge
Academic Vocabulary
Plot
Grammar
Point of View
100
Onomatopoeia
What type of figuartive language is KABOOM! BOOM!?
100
Cause
the reason why something happens
100
Exposition
setting, background, characters
100
Complex sentence
a sentence made up of one independent clause and one or more dependent clauses.
100
First person
narrator who is a character in the story and tells the story from his or her point of you using words I or me
200
Hyperbole
a deliberate exaggeration
200
Effect
the result of the cause
200
Climax
the turning point in a plot
200
Compound-Complex Sentence
a sentence made up of two or more independent clauses and one or more independent clauses
200
second person
narrator who addresses the reader directly, sometimes using the word you
300
Idiom
I'm so hungry I can eat a horse
300
denotation
a words dictionary definition or what it literally means
300
Rising action
the bulk of the story, during which the character works to resolve the problem
300
coordinating conjuction
a word that joins two indpendent clauses
300
bias
A judgment based on a personal point of view; to favor one view over another.
400
personification
the flowers waltzed in the gentle breeze
400
Inference
an educated guess based on information and evidence in a text and the reader's prior knowledge
400
antagonist
a person who activley opposes or is hostile to someone or something
400
Compund Sentence
a sentence made up of two or more independent clauses joined by a corrdinating conjuction
400
third person limited
a narrator who is not a character in the story and knows the thoughts of only one character.
500
allusion
a figure of speech that makes a reference to a place, person, or something, that happened.
500
Theme
the central message or lesson of a literary work
500
protagonist
the leading character or one of the main charatcers in a drama, movie, novel, or other fictional text
500
For, And, Nor, Between, Or, Yet
what does FANBOY mean?
500
third person omniscient
an all knowing narrator who is not a character in the story
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