Vocabulary Skills
A word that is the opposite in meaning to another word
What is an antonym?
The sequence in which an author arranges events in a story
What is plot?
"The competitors raced fast as cheetahs around the track."
What is a simile?
The turning point in a story; often the moment when the conflict is at its most intense
What is the climax?
The written text of a play, which includes the dialogue between characters, stage directions, and other expository information
What is a dramatic script?
The literal meaning or dictionary definition of a word
What is denotation?
A person, animal, or significant object portrayed in a literary work
What is a character?
"I had to wait forever for someone to help me at the store."
What is hyperbole?
The beginning of a literary work that provides necessary background information about the characters and circumstances in the text
What is the exposition?
A playwright's written instructions about the setting or the movement/behavior of actors in a play
What are stage directions?
What is a synonym?
A person, animal, or thing telling the story
What is the narrator?
"The flowers danced about the lawn in the spring breeze."
What is personification?
An organizational device used to present action that occurred before the present time in a story
What is a flashback?
An extended speech spoken by one character, either to other characters or as if alone
What is a monologue?
a category to which a word is assigned in accordance with its syntactic functions, such as noun, verb, adjective, pronoun, etc.
What is part of speech?
The voice used by an author to narrate a poem
What is the speaker?
"The man at the concert stood directly in front of me, a mountain blocking my view."
What is a metaphor?
The part of the plot characterized by diminishing tensions and the beginnings of conflict resolutions
What is the falling action?
The conversations between characters in a play
What is dialogue?
The associations attached to a word or phrase that extend beyond its dictionary definition
What is connotation?
The time and place in which a story unfolds
What is the setting?
"We vacationed on an island that was a veritable Garden of Eden, perfect in every way!"
What is an allusion?
The part of the story where the plot becomes increasingly complicated
What is the rising action?
What is a soliloquy?