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Literary terms: the problem, or challenge, that the main character faces
conflict
100
Information from the text that supports, or proves, an inference or fact
Evidence
100
A category of literature or film.
Genre
100
A feeling or emotional state that a piece of literature creates in the reader such as comedic, suspenseful, tragic, joyous, etc.
Mood
100
An affix that comes after the base word to create a new word, such as forget + able = forgettable.
Suffix
200
From the Greek word for ladder, it is the moment in a story when the conflict or crisis reaches its point of greatest intensity and is usualy the turning point in the story's action.
Climax
200
A punctuation mark that indicates strong feelings and excitement.
Exclamation mark.
200
Exaggeration or overstatement
Hyperbole
200
The part of the story where conflict starts and escalates. These parts are necessary to bring about the climax.
Rising Action
200
A character in the story is the narrator. This character is telling the story. The narrator uses the pronouns I, me and we.
First person point of view.
300
Many mumbling mice are making midnight music in the moonlight.
Alliteration
300
A punctuation mark that states another person's words.
Quotation Marks.
300
The events that follow the climax and help to bring closure or a resolution to the conflict
Falling Action
300
A base morpheme without affixes attached to it or a word from an older language that has become the source for words in a newer language, such as Greek words are a source for English words.
Root
300
NAME THE LITERARY TERM: The way an author conveys his/her attitude about particular characters and subject matter. In poetry, it is called “voice.” It is the feeling the author brings to the piece or the attitude the author takes (towards the subject, audience, or character[s].
Tone
400
Literary term: Bow-wow, says the dog,
Onomatopoeia
400
The author goes back to the past to help the reader understand the present.
Flashback
400
Mental pictures that a reader experiences with a passage of literature.
Imagery
400
NAME THE LITERARY TERM: 'Pink is what red looks like when it kicks off its shoes and lets its hair down. …Pink is as laid back as beige, but while beige is dull and bland, pink is laid back with attitude.'
Personification
400
The story is being told by an outside observer (someone who is not in the story). The author uses the pronouns he, she, and they.
Third person point of view
500
A book that is based on real facts.
non fiction
500
NAME THE LITERARY TERM: The author gives a hint that allows the reader to predict what is to come in the story.
Foreshadowing
500
The hero in a story.
The protagonist.
500
"The Naming Pool glittered like a mirror." simile or metaphor?
metaphor
500
"The dragon flew as fast as the wind." simile or metaphor?
simile
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