Vocabulary
What is the definition of the word : Peddler?
Someone who goes place to place selling small items
DD: Who is referenced as looking like a peddler in The Greatest Gift
Name the type of figurative language being used:
The cars zoomed around the race track.
Onomatopoeia
DD: Give me your own example of an onomatopoeia
A very short folktale where characters are personified animals that usually teaches a lesson.
Fable
DD: Name one of the Aesops Fables we read in class
What type of undergoes an important inner changes, such as beliefs, personality, and attitudes.
Dynamic character
DD: Who is the main character of a story?
Hints or clues about what may happen later in the story.
Foreshadowing
DD: What do you call a truth about life that is revealed through a story?
What is the definition of the word: Straggling?
to be laid out irregularly
DD: What is this vocabulary word describing in TGG?
Name the type of figurative language being used:
It is raining cats and dogs outside.
Idiom
DD: Provide another example of Idiom and explain its meaning.
A genre of fiction usually set in the past and includes real people, places or events from history.
Historical fiction
A character who stays the same throughout the entire story
static
DD: Give an example of a static character from one of the novels we read this year
In a plot mountain, what do call the most exciting part of the story for the main characters?
Climax
DD: What is it called when the author provides an ending to a chapter that leaves the reader in suspense.
What is the definition of the word: twinge?
sudden sharp pain
Give me the definition of hyperbole.
An extreme exaggeration that cannot possibly be true.
DD: Give me an example of a hyperbole.
A folktale that usually has a connection to a real historical person or event, combining fact and fictional events.
Legend
A character mentioned only briefly in a story (less than a flat character)
minor
DD: What character is in conflict against the protagonist?
The end of a story where the loose ends of the plot are tied up and conflicts are resolved.
Resolution
DD: What 5 clues that help us characterize people from a story?
What is the definition of the word: Paunchy
having large belly
What type of figurative language is being used?
Her hair danced as she spun on the ballroom floor.
Personification
A genre of fiction that has magical elements, talking animals, and objects/ people with superpowers.
Fantasy
DD: what folktale with unbelievable exaggerations told as if it were true; humorous
A character you do not know well (under-developed)
Flat
When an author interrupts the plot to bring up an incident from an earlier time.
Flashback
DD: _____ is reader-centered and shows the overall feeling or atmosphere created by a work of literature.
Give the correct vocabulary word that fits the sentence.
The water looked ______________ cold.
Paralyzingly
The repetition of 3 or more letters in a sentence.
Alliteration
DD: Give an example of your own alliteration
A genre of fiction that is set in the future, has technology, space/ time travel. Sometimes utopian or dystopian societies.
Science fiction
DD: ________ is writer-centered and shows the attitude the writer takes toward the subject.
Give definition of a sympathetic character.
A character hose situation you understand, sympathize, with or can relate to.
Objects, places, words, colors that can signify something other than the original meaning.
Symbolism