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40 Cards in this Set
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Setting |
when & where the story takes place |
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Biography |
a story of someone's life not written by themself |
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Autobiography |
story of someone's life written by themself |
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point of view |
the position the story is told from |
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alliteration |
the repetition of the beginning sounds of words |
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simile |
compares two thin gs using like or as |
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compare |
similarities |
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contrast |
differences |
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genre |
catogory |
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plot summary |
a brief description of how the story is organized |
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sequence |
order |
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conflict |
problem |
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resolution |
solution |
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characters |
who is in the story |
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dialogue |
conversation |
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protagonist |
good guy |
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antagonist |
bad guy |
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onomatopeia |
a word that makes a sound |
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stanza |
a paragraph of a poem |
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pun |
a play on words |
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infer |
read between the lines |
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hiaku |
a 3-line Japanese poem |
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denotation |
dictionary definition |
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connotation |
a word's implied definition |
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footnotes |
additional information found at the bottom of the page |
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plot twist |
an unexpected change in what happens in the story |
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fact |
can be proven |
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opinion |
based on personal beliefs or thoughts |
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theme |
the subject of writing / main idea |
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narrative |
story |
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foreshadowing |
to indicate beforehand |
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symbolism |
words or pictures that represents |
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prediction |
an educated guess |
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fable |
a story with a moral |
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prologue |
what happens before a story begins |
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epilogue |
what happens after a story ends |
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acronym |
abbreviation formed from the initial letters of words |
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irony |
Dramatic- audience understands more than the characters Situational- what happens is the opposite of what is expected verbal- a character says something sarcastically
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idiom |
an expression that is not literal |
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etymology |
the study of the word origins |
