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This means in order from 1st to last
What is chronological order
These describe a character's personality
What are character traits
When the main character thinks back to a time before the events that are happening in the story
What is a flashback?
When you compare two things without using the words like or as
What is a metaphor?
A statement that briefly tells the contents of the story
What is the summary?
To explain how two or more things are similar
What is to compare?
When you use clues from the story and what you already know to figure out what is happening or important details in the story
What is making inferences?
These clues are used in a sentence to help you understand a word's meaning
what are context clues
Giving human actions, thoughts, and language to an object or animal
What is personification?
All the events that take place in a story
What is the plot?
The point in the plot where the characters begin to solve the problem It is the high point of the story.
What is the climax?
When a writer uses one thing to represent another. For example a the beating heart represents the caretaker's guilt.
What is symbolism?
The feeling a piece of writing gives the reader
What is the mood?
An over exaggeration for example, "I have told you a million times to take out the trash
What is a hyperbole?
The character telling the story
Who is the narrator?
When an author gives hints about events that will happen later in the story
What is foreshadowing?
What the author wants you to learn from an article or piece of informational text
What is the author's purpose?
Guessing what will happen in the story using given information
What is making a prediction?
The conclusion or how a problem is solved in a story
what is the resolution?
The reason for a character's actions.
What is motivation or character motivation?
When and where a story takes place.
what is the setting?
A factual account of a person's life written by another person
What is a biography?
An expression that means something different than its literal meaning. example-It is raining cats and dogs really means it is raining very hard.
What is an idiom?
Repeating the beginning sound in a group of words (six silly snakes slithered in the sand)
what is alliteration?
The part of the plot that introduces the characters and the setting
What is the exposition?