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General Terms
Types of Texts
Story Elements
Elements of Plot
Elements of Poetry
100
Cues to the meaning of an unfamiliar word that occur in the sentence(s) or paragraph(s) in which the word appears.
What are Context Clues?
100
A 14 line poem
What is a Sonnet?
100
The struggle between opposing forces
What is the Conflict?
100
Story’s greatest moment of intensity, conflict is resolved
What is the Climax?
100
Main unit of a poem
What is a Line?
200
A logical guess based on evidence presented in a text.
What is an Inference?
200
Form of literature meant to be performed by actors.
What is a Drama (or play)?
200
Time and Place of the action in a story
What is the Setting?
200
Introduces characters and setting, presents the conflict
What is the Exposition?
200
A group of lines
What is a Stanza?
300
A category or class of literature
What is a Genre?
300
Type of literature in which words are carefully chosen and arranged to create certain effects.
What is Poetry?
300
Growing tension and excitement of a story felt by the reader.
What is Suspense?
300
Reveals the final outcome of the conflict
What is the Resolution?
300
How words are arranged on the page
What is Form?
400
The central message of a piece of text or lesson about life.
What is a Theme?
400
A form of autobiographical writing in which personal experiences are shared
What is a Memoir?
400
Qualities shown by the character. May be inferred or directly stated.
What are Character Traits?
400
Story begins to draw to a close
What is the Falling Action?
400
A pair of lines
What is a Couplet?
500
A restatement of information in the speaker’s or writer’s own words.
What is Paraphrase?
500
An opinion piece that usually appears in the opinion section of a newspaper.
What is an Editorial?
500
The reasons for the character’s behavior.
What is Motivation?
500
Presents complications that intensify
What is the Rising Action?
500
A pattern of end rhyme
What is Rhyme Scheme?