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Plot
Figurative Language
FL and Text Structure
100
Where and when the story takes place.
What is a setting?
100
The turning point of the story, usually near the ending where the most suspenseful event occurs
What is a climax?
100
the message about life from the author
What is a theme?
100
a comparison using like or as.
What is a simile?
100
when a consonant sounds are repeated at the beginnings of words
What is alliteration?
200
the series of events in a story
What is a plot?
200
events that build towards climax
What is the rising action?
200
the ending where the conflict is resolved
What is a resolution?
200
a comparison that doesn't use like or as
What is a metaphor?
200
words that sound the way they are spelled
What is an onomantopoeia?
300
a conversation between characters
What is dialogue?
300
the beginning of the story when setting, characters, and conflict are introduced
What is the exposition?
300
an action that goes back to an earlier time
What is flashback?
300
human characteristics are given to non-human things
What is personification?
300
words or phrases are repeated to emphasize an idea
What is repetition?
400
The main character or hero in a story
What is a protagonist?
400
the author gives hints or clues about events that may occur later
What is foreshadowing?
400
a problem against outside forces
What is external conflict?
400
a big exaggeration to emphasize something.
What is hyperbole?
400
events told in the order they occur
What is chronological?
500
a character against the protagonist or villain/enemy
What is an antagonist?
500
the problem in a character's mind
What is internal conflict?
500
The antagonist in The Thief of Always.
What is Mr. Hood?
500
an expression that has meaning different than its literal words
What is an Idiom?
500
the text describes how two (or more) things are alike and different.
What is compare/contrast?