Vocabulary
This word means "to recall past experiences with pleasure."
What is reminisce?
This term refers to the characteristics that define who a person is.
What is identity?
This refers to the framework, or all elements of a story.
What is narrative structure?
A pronoun that acts as the subject of a sentence.
What is a subject pronoun?
This verb means "to discuss something in order to make a decision."
What is confer?
This word means "to make certain or guarantee."
What is assure?
This term describes the way a person’s background, language, and traditions shape their sense of self.
What is cultural identity?
A central idea that an author explores in a story.
What is a theme?
A pronoun that is used as a direct object, and indirect object, or the object of a preposition.
What is an object pronoun?
This verb means "to come together or assemble."
What is convene?
This word means "to cause severe and extensive damage."
What is ravage?
A fictional narrative that is longer than a short story, with a structured plot and developed characters.
What is a novel?
This term describes the way a work of literature is put together, or the elements are arranged in a text.
What is structure?
A sentence element made up of two or more words joined by the conjunction 'or' or 'and'.
What is a compound?
This word means "little sister" in Spanish
What is hermanita?
This word refers to a dramatic or exaggerated display of emotions.
What is melodrama?
Name one of the three key elements of a novel.
What is tells a story from the writer's imagination?
What is can develop characters and conflict more thoroughly than a short story?
What is often develops more than one plot and/or contains subplots?
These are the two key aspects of the structure of a novel.
What are how the writer treats time within the story, and how the writer uses cause and effect to link events?
A group of words consisting of a preposition, its object, and any words that modify the object.
What is a prepositional phrase?
This word is the term for a dance of Dominican and Haitian folk origin.
What is the merengue?
This word describes something light and bubbly, like foam.
What is froth?
This term refers to the people who drive the story forward.
What are characters?
These are direct statements in the text that express key ideas.
What are explicit textual statements?
These are examples of subject pronouns.
What are "I, we, you, he, she, it, and they"?
This is the name of a neighborhood in Panama City that suffered heavy damage during the 1989 U.S. invasion of Panama.
What is El Chorrillo?