Grammar Terms
a word that expresses time while showing an action
What is a verb?
Main character/ the one you are rooting for
What is a protagonist?
The events leading up to the climax.
A comparison using like or as
What is a simile?
When an author gives hints about what will happen later
What is foreshadowing?
A word or phrase that modifies or describes a noun or pronoun.
What is an adjective?
The character that is in conflict with the protagonist/ the one you are rooting against
What is an antagonist?
Events that occur after the climax, leading to the resolution.
What is falling action?
Giving human qualities to non-human things
What is personification?
A logical conclusion or educated guess derived by combining text evidence with the reader’s background knowledge
What is an inference?
A word that modifies or describes a verb, adverb, or adjective.
What is an adverb?
The problem or struggle in a short story or novel.
What is the conflict?
The high point of suspense in a short story or novel. The conflict is solved.
What is the climax?
Words that imitate sounds
What is onomatopoeia?
An interruption in the narrative to show an event that happened in the past
What is a flashback?
A connecting word.
What is a conjunction?
A character that undergoes a change during the story
What is a dynamic character?
Beginning of the story where you find the main character, the main conflict, and the setting
What is the exposition?
Repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words
Vivid description that appeals to a reader's senses
What is imagery?
A sentence with at least one independent and one subordinate clause.
What is a complex sentence?
Conversation between characters
What is dialogue?
The sequence in which the author arranges events in a story. The structure often includes the rising action, the climax, the falling action and the resolution.
What is the plot?
Extreme exaggeration for emphasis
What is a hyperbole?
Something happens that was the opposite of what was expected.
What is irony?