Fiction
The main character of the story.
Protagonist
When you combine your prior knowledge with what you are reading.
Inference
The person that narrates the poem.
Speaker
An introductory scene (usually where a narrator summarized the main action or setting of the scene.)
Prologue
a portion or piece of a sentence. (Not a complete sentence.)
Fragment
The attitude or feeling that the author has about the subject.
Tone
A writer presents an assertion as truth.
Claim
Short musical poetry that deals with thoughts and emotions.
Lyrical poetry
give directions to the actors how to act on stage. They are usually in parenthesis or italics
Stage directions
A clause that includes a complete subject and predicate.
A Complete sentence or independent clause.
Is a person,place, or thing that represents something beyond its literal meaning.
Symbolism
Putting a part or or all of a text you are reading into your own words.
Paraphrase
Repetition of the vowel sound inside words. (Ex: The road the toad strode on was gold.
Assonance
Monologue
Separates independent clauses
semi-colon
Reasons why the characters act the way they do.
Character motivation
A writer presents reasons to challenge an opposing argument.
Rebuttal
A description that strongly appeals to the 5 senses: sight, smell, touch, hear, taste.
Imagery
Involves the ruin of the leading characters (something depressing or disastrous happens.)
Tragedy
Two independent clauses joined by coordinating concunction.
Compound sentence
A character is struggling against an outside force, such as another character, nature, or society.
External conflict
Taking information from two or more areas of text and adding all this connecter information together to come up with a conclusion.
Synthesize
Two words that rhyme on the same line. (Ex: Once upon a midnight dreary, as I pondered weak and weary.)
Internal rhyme
a character may turn to the audience to make an observation or quippy remark that the other characters can't hear
An Aside
When a pronoun matches the noun it refers to in number, person, and gender (e.g., "she" matches "Sarah").
Pronoun - Antecedent agreement