Reading...
Play button
Play button
Use LEFT and RIGHT arrow keys to navigate between flashcards;
Use UP and DOWN arrow keys to flip the card;
H to show hint;
A reads text to speech;
48 Cards in this Set
- Front
- Back
|
good will
|
benevolence
|
|
|
narrator who sees and knows all about the story
|
omniscient
|
|
|
disgusting, disagreeable
|
odious
|
|
|
appeals to the reader's five senses
|
sensory language
|
|
|
light hearted, merry
|
jocund
|
|
|
the character who tells the poem
|
speaker in a poem
|
|
|
to put out
|
to extinguish
|
|
|
words that communicate vivid pictures
|
descriptive writing
|
|
|
full of good humor
|
jovial
|
|
|
the highest point of interest or suspense in a story
|
climax
|
|
|
pretend
|
feign
|
|
|
a scene within a story that interrupts the normal sequence of events to provide imformation relative to the story
|
flashback
|
|
|
wearing threadbare clothes
|
shabby
|
|
|
conflict within a chacrter's mind
|
internal conflict
|
|
|
to protest, complain
|
to remonstrate
|
|
|
story is told through the eyes of a character
|
3rd person
|
|
|
suggesting respect
|
reverently
|
|
|
the use of words to imitate sounds
|
onomatopoeia
|
|
|
not well known, dark, unclear
|
obscure
|
|
|
a familiar object that stands for something unfamiliar
|
symbolism
|
|
|
merry, cheerful, carefree
|
blithe
|
|
|
the end of the central conflict where a problem is resolved
|
resolutions
|
|
|
to make showy or display
|
to flaunt
|
|
|
a comparison of unlike things using like or as
|
simile
|
|
|
delight;joy
|
glee
|
|
|
the time and place that a story takes place
|
setting
|
|
|
challenge, resistance to authority
|
defiance
|
|
|
repetition of initial constant sounds
|
alliteration
|
|
|
a substance composed of 2 or more substances
|
compound
|
|
|
the creation of believable fictitious characters
|
characterization
|
|
|
ghost
|
apparition
|
|
|
perspective from which the story is told
|
point of view
|
|
|
state of being improper
|
impropriety
|
|
|
a comparison stating one thing is another
|
metaphor
|
|
|
regret for wrong doing; self punishment
|
penance
|
|
|
a struggle between two opposing forces
|
conflict
|
|
|
obvious
|
palpable
|
|
|
conflict that has to do with struggles with an outside force
|
external conflict
|
|
|
a person who carries out the terms of a will
|
executor
|
|
|
autobiographical writing that deals with the writer's memory of someone or an important event
|
memoir
|
|
|
a division or type of literature ex:poetry, novels, short stories, biography, etc.
|
genre
|
|
|
central or controlling idea of a literary work
|
theme
|
|
|
repeated words or phrases
|
repetition
|
|
|
the sequence of events in a story
|
plot
|
|
|
a long prose of fiction
|
novel
|
|
|
one character tells the story
|
1st person
|
|
|
the author's use of clues to hint at what might happen
|
foreshadowing
|
|
|
a brief work of fiction that contains essential elements of a literature such as setting, plot, and conflict
|
short story
|
