Vocab #1
What word means to hide your true feelings, character, or intentions under a false appearance?
What is dissimulate?
Nora opened the envelope and immediately noticed that it smelled strongly of smoke. The paper was damp, the edges were burned, and a faint scratching sound came from inside.
What element is being used?
What is imagery?
The author describes an abandoned house with broken windows, creaking floorboards, and a cold wind blowing through the halls. What element of suspense is being used?
What is setting/atmosphere?
This part of the plot introduces the characters, setting, and basic situation.
What is the exposition?
Her hands were as cold as ice.
What is a simile?
What word describes her keen judgment and wisdom?
What is sagacity?
As Malik walked home, the sky suddenly became dark. Thunder shook the windows, and the empty streets were covered in fog.
What element is being used?
What is setting/atmosphere?
A narrator tells the story using “I” and describes everything that happens to them, but the reader only knows what this character knows. What point of view is being used?
What is first-person point of view?
The main character discovers a mysterious letter, investigates where it came from, and realizes someone may be following them.
What is the rising action?
After losing the championship, disappointment was a heavy shadow that followed Brianna everywhere.
What is a metaphor?
“I think Marcus took the missing book because he was the last person in the library.”
This is an example of what?
What is a supposition?
The audience knows the bridge is unsafe, but the character confidently begins crossing it, unaware that it may collapse.
What element is being used?
What is dramatic irony?
“The thick, smoky air burned Maya's throat as the bitter smell of something charred filled the room.”
What is imagery?
After the villain is defeated, the characters deal with the consequences and begin returning to their normal lives.
What is the falling action?
The old bridge groaned beneath the weight of the passing cars, as if it were warning them to turn back.
What is personification?
Without asking permission, Trevor walked onto the stage during the school assembly and grabbed the microphone.
This is an example of what?
What is audacity?
Tyler checked the hallway. Nothing.
He checked the kitchen. Empty.
A floorboard creaked upstairs.
Tyler stopped.
Another creak.
Then another.
What element is being used?
What is pacing?
A character hears footsteps behind her. The author uses very short sentences: “She ran. The footsteps followed. Faster. Closer. She couldn't stop.”
What is pacing?
The hero finally confronts the villain and must make the most important decision of the story.
What is the climax?
The silence shattered when the rusty gate screeched open, followed by the sharp clink-clank of metal hitting the stone floor.
What is onomatopoeia?
“I DID NOT BREAK THE WINDOW!” Carlos shouted, pounding his fist on the desk.
How did Carlos deny breaking the window?
What is vehemently?
Maya watched the storm approach from her bedroom window. She wondered whether she should warn her neighbors, but she didn't know that her brother had already seen the warning on the news.
What element is being used?
What is third person point of view?
The audience knows that a villain is hiding inside a character's house, but the character enters the house without knowing the villain is there.
What is dramatic irony?
The mystery has been solved, the characters' problems have been settled, and the story comes to an end.
What is the resolution?
When Elena saw the mountain of homework on her desk, she sighed, “If I finish all of this, I’ll be a hundred years old before I ever leave this room.”
What is hyperbole?