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Specific word choices in a text that strongly support the tone, mood or meaning of the text
What is Key Words
100
The author's central thought
What is Main Idea
100
Words that have several meanings depending upon how they are used in a sentence
What is Multiple-Meaning Words
100
A person, animal, or thing telling the story or giving an account of something
What is Narrator
100
Groups of letters placed before a word to alter its meaning
What is Prefix
200
Points of information in a text that strongly support the meaning or tell the story
What is Key/Supporting Details
200
An essential technique used in literature
What is Literary Element
200
The prevailing emotions or atmosphere of a work derived from literary devices such as dialogue and literary elemetns such as setting
What is Mood
200
Text that is not fictional; designed primarily to explain, argue, instruct, or describe rather than entertain.
What is Nonfiction
200
The structure of a story
What is Plot
300
Nonfiction written primarily to convey factual information
What is Informational Text
300
A story expressed orally or in text
What is Narrative
300
Text that includes literary elements and devices usually associated with fiction to report on actual persons, places, or events
What is Literary Nonfiction
300
The position of the narrator in relation to the story
What is Point of View
300
The part of a story where the plot becomes increasingly complicated
What is Rising Action
400
The overall structure or shape of a work that frequently follows an established design
What is Literary Form
400
An extended speech spoken by one speaker, either to others or as if alone
What is Monologue
400
A trend or pattern of shared beliefs or practices that mark an approach to literature
What is Literary Movement
400
A personal view, attitude, or appraisal
What is Opinion
400
Information aimed at positively or negatively influencing the opinions or behaviors of large numbers of people
What is Propaganda
500
The use of a word or phrase to mean the exact opposite of its literal or usual meaning; incongruity between the actual result o a sequence of events and the expected result
What is Irony
500
A judgment based on reasoning rather than on a direct or explicit statement
What is Inference
500
A recurring subject, theme, or idea in literary work
What is Motif
500
An object or abstract idea given human qualities or human form
What is Personification
500
Text that aims to present ideas and evoke an emotional experience in the reader through the use of meter, imagery and connotative and concrete words
What is Poetry
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