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36 Cards in this Set
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Climax |
the story's most emotional or suspenseful moment, the point at which the conflict is decided one way or the other |
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Resolution |
the ending of the story |
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Conflict |
a struggle between opposing characters or opposing forces |
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Internal conflict |
a struggle in the character's mind |
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External conflict |
a struggle against another person, group of people, or a force of nature |
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Foreshadow |
hints or clues about what will happen later in the story |
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Suspense |
feeling of anxious curiosity and wanting to know what happens next |
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Motivation |
all the forces that push or pull people from inside and outside and make them act in a certain way |
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Character |
anyone who plays a part in a story, acts out the plot |
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Character traits |
a quality in a person that can't be seen |
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Inference |
educated guesses based on the evidence you have, to figure out what happened |
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Dynamic Character |
a character that changes in the story and discovers something of importance about themselves and their world |
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Static Character |
a character that remains the same |
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Predict |
guess what will happen next |
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Historical fiction |
=facts and setting are in the past, but the story is made up |
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1st person point of view |
a character in the story tells the story, we directly share the narrator's thoughts and feelings but we only know what this character knows |
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3rd person point of view |
someone outside the story is telling the story |
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Omniscient |
all knowing |
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Theme |
a truth about life, a life lesson, explained as a full sentence (compared to TOPIC which is one word) |
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Flashback |
the author flashes back to an earlier time to tell a story that related to the story being told, the author feels the reader needs this information in order to understand what is happening in the present |
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Biography |
the story of a person’s life written by someone else |
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Autobiography |
you write the story of your own life |
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Imagery |
language that appeals to the senses, creates an image/picture as you read |
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Tone |
the writer’s attitude in a literary work |
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Fiction |
writing that is made up, false, not based on truth or actual events |
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Nonfiction |
writing that is true and based on fact |
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Mythology |
a set of stories, traditions, or beliefs associated with a particular group or the history of an event |
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Irony |
when you expect something to happen, but the opposite happens |
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Moral |
a lesson from a story, tells what is right or just |
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Context Clues |
the surrounding words and sentences that help you figure out what a word might mean |
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Motif |
features that are commonly used in literature, features that are repeated in stories, things you typically see in folk tales |
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Taboo |
a prohibition of something, forbidden to do something |
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Origin myth |
an imaginative story that explains how something came into being |
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Fable |
a brief story or poem that is usually short, often has animal characters, and teaches a moral |
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Aesop |
a Greek slave who wrote many fables |
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Two types of folktales |
ethnic tales and fairy tales |
