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What Is Setting?

A time/duration (length of time) and place 


Ex. Giants' stadium in the winter. 

100

What is Protagonist?

A story's main character, who has the sympathy and support of the audience. This character tends to be involved in or affected by most of the choices or conflicts that arise in the narrative.


Ex. Snow White in Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.

100

What is Fact?

Something that can be proven?


Ex. There are 435 cars in the parking lot.

100

What is Opinion?

Something that cannot be proven.


Ex. Convertibles are the best cars.

100

What is Personification?

A type of figurative language in which non-human things are described as having human attributes.


Ex. The wind played hide-and-go-seek among the trees.

200

What is Onomatopoeia?

Words that sound like what they mean.


Ex. boing, crack, boom, swish

200

What is Rhythm?

A literary device that demonstrates the long and short patterns through stressed and unstressed syllables particularly in verse form


Ex. Tyger! Tyger! burning bright. In the forests of the night.

200

What is Cause?

Something that makes something else happen. WHY something happens.

Ex. I broke my mom's phone

200

What is Effect?

What happened because of the cause. THE RESULT


Ex. I am grounded for a month.

200

What is Mood?

The emotional feeling or atmosphere that a text produces in a reader; Reader-centered


Ex. cheerful, gloomy, humorous, romantic, mysterious, hopeful, angry, and fearful

300

What is Tone?

Attitude, conveyed by the author in a text which can very within or across text and is dependent on purpose and audience; creates mood; writers-centered 


Ex. Declaration of Independence 

300

What is Genre?

A genre is a category of literature identified by form, content, and style.


Ex. poetry, speech, fiction, and non-fiction 

300

What is 1st Person Point of View?

The narrator is a character in a story and tells the story from his/her perspective. uses "I"


Ex. "I went to the store"

300

What is 3rd Person Limited Point of View?

The narrator is not a character in the story; tells a story about the other people; uses "he, she, it, them"


Ex. He went to the store

300

What is 3rd Person Omniscient Point of View

"All knowing". Narrator knows all, hears all, and sees all.



Ex. God if he's real

400

What is Speaker/Narrator?

The person who is talking


Ex. Auggie in the book Wonder

400

What is a Static Character?

A character who does not change throughout the story


Ex. The evil stepmother in Cinderella

400

What is a Dynamic Character?

A character who changes throughout the story


Ex. The Grinch in How the Grinch Stole Christmas

400

What is an Antagonist?

A character who opposes the main character


Ex. the evil queen in Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs

400

What is Plot?

What happens in the story


Ex. what happens in your book

500

What is Plot Diagram

Initiating event-Rising action-Climax-Falling action- Resolution

500

What is Theme?

The lesson learned from the story


Ex. Patience is a Virtue

500

What is Conflict/Central Conflict?

The problem in the story


Ex. The fights between Socs and Greasers in The Outsiders

500
What is Internal Conflict?

Happens when a character struggles with something within themselves


Ex. Individual vs. Self

500

What is Resolution?

The solution to the conflict


Ex. Winning the rumble in The Outsiders