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A person or animal in the story, play , or literary work.
What is a character?
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I move fast like a cheetah on the Serengeti.
What is simile?
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Words/sentences that surround an unknown word and help the reader to figure out the unknown word's meaning.
What is context clues?
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sale |sāl| noun 1 the exchange of a commodity for money; the action of selling something : we withdrew it from sale | the sale has fallen through. • ( sales) a quantity or amount sold : price cuts failed to boost sales. • ( sales) the activity or business of selling products : director of sales and marketing. 2 an event for the rapid disposal of goods at reduced prices for a period, esp. at the end of a season : a clearance sale. • [often with adj. ] a public or charitable event at which goods are sold. • a public auction. I went to the sale because the dress I wanted was on sale. How is sale used in the sentence?
What is DEFINITION 2
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Someone or something that is magical and helps the hero or heroine in the story.
What is a magic helper?
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Events that occur in the story
What is plot?
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The toast jumped out of the toaster.
What is personification?
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An interruption of the action to present events that took place at an earlier time.
What is a flashback?
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The cat dashed out of sight and I was unable to catch it.: Dashed means - jumped - ran quickly - fell - attacked
What is ran quickly
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The rule where events or occurrences that happen in three, as seen in classic stories.
What is the rule of three?
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The castle sat in a moat surrounded by murky water. This sentence depicts the ___________ of the story.
What is setting?
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Time is money.
What is metaphor?
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A story that is not true or made up.
What is fiction?
300
catch |ka ch; ke ch | verb ( past caught |kôt|) [ trans. ] 1 intercept and hold (something that has been thrown, propelled, or 2 capture (a person or animal that tries or would try to escape) I had to catch the ball in order for the person to be out. Which definition should match the sentence?
What is DEFINITION 1
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A group of two or more lines that form a unit in a poem. (a paragraph of a poem)
What is a stanza?
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This story element can be either internal, external or both
What is CONFLICT
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Betty bought butter but the butter was bitter, so Betty bought better butter to make the bitter butter better.
What is alliteration?
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A message about life or human nature.
What is theme?
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Grass:Green::Sky:
What is blue
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An error in reasoning or logic in a persuasive text.
What is simply faulty reasoning?
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Overall emotion created by the work of literature; the feeling the reader gets when he/she reads the text.
What is MOOD
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Her head was spinning from all the new information.
What is hyperbole?
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Venn Diagrams, T-Charts, Semantic Maps are all types of
What are graphic organizers?
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What resource do you use to help you define words that you do not know?
What is dictionary
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A form of language that is spoken in a particular place.
What is dialect?