Fiction
The main character in the story.
A Protagonist
This is meant to be performed on a stage for an audience.
Drama
An educated guess based on evidence from the passage
Inference/infer
A paragraph or a group of lines for a poem
Stanza
A word that is added to the beginning of a word (pre- or re-)
Prefix
A character in the story that makes some of change or learns a lesson.
Dynamic Character
The person who tells the story.
Narrator
A shortened version of the text that focuses on the main idea of the passage
Summary
The figurative language that uses words that sound like the word they describe (boom, buzz, etc.)
Onomatopoeia
A word part that is added to the end of a word (-ed or -ly)
Suffix
These are the 4 different types of conflicts in a story.
Character vs. character; character vs. society; character vs. nature; character vs. self
An ____ is part of a play, and the ____ is part of the first answer.
Act and scene
The most important information about who or what the passage is about
Main Idea
Words that express more than their literal meaning
Figurative Language
Words that are opposite
Antonym
This point of view shows the narrator telling the story and knowing what most of the characters are thinking and feeling.
3rd person omniscient
A long speech that typically reveals the private thoughts of a character and is usually given when that character is alone onstage.
Soliloquies
This text structure focuses on how actions or events can impact other events to happen.
Cause and effect
The pattern of end rhyme in a poem (ex. aabba)
Rhyme Scheme
Words that have the same meaning
Synonym
These events are all found in a plot. There are 5 of them.
Exposition, Rising action, Climax, Falling action, and resolution
This type of drama involves the ruin of the leading characters
Tragedy
This type of language is more professional or academic
Formal Language
This figurative language is used throughout a stanza or an entire poem. It's usually a type of metaphor.
Extended Metaphor
This has the use of other words in the sentence or passage to help determine the meaning of an unknown word.
Context Clues