Download 1. alliteration 5. biography 2. antagonist 6. climax 3. antonym 7

1. alliteration
5. biography
2. antagonist
6. climax
3. antonym
7. conflict
4. autobiography
8. fact
9. falling action
13. genre
10. fiction
14. homonym
11. flashback
15. homophone
12. foreshadowing
16. hyperbole
17. imagery
21. nonfiction
18. infer
22. onomatopoeia
19. irony
23. opinion
20. metaphor
24. personification
25. plagiarism
29. resolution
26. plot
30. rising action
27. point of view
31. simile
28. protagonist
32. symbol
33. synonym
37. external conflict
34. theme
38. internal conflict
35. dialogue
39. rhythm
36. characterization
40. meter
41. end rhyme
42. repetition
43. setting
1. The repetition of a sound at the
beginning of two or more neighboring
words.
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2. the main character in opposition to the
protagonist or hero of a narrative or drama.
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3. a word of opposite meaning
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4. a biography written by the person it is about
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5. a history of a person’s life written or
told by another person.
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6. the point of highest dramatic interest or
major turning point in the action or story.
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7. the struggle of two opposing forces in a story.
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8. something that actually exists or occurs.
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9. the events of a story that follow the climax.
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10. a story drawn from imagination rather
than solely from fact.
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11. the introduction of a past event into a
story or motion picture.
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12. the planting of important clues to
prepare the reader for what is to come.
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13. a category of literary work
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14. a word that is spelled and sounds the
same as another, but differs in meaning.
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15. a word pronounced the same as another
but differing in meaning and spelling.
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16. a figure of speech in which exaggeration
is used for emphasis or effect.
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17. language that appeals to the senses
(smells, looks, sounds, tastes, feels).
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18. to make a logical guess based on
evidence from the text and/or one’s
prior knowledge or experience.
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19. when what actually occurs is the opposite
of what is expected to happen.
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20. an imaginative comparison between 2
unlike things in which one thing is
said to be another.
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21. literature that is not fictional.
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22. words that imitate their sounds such as BOOM,
SPLASH.
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23. a belief based on experience and or seeing
certain facts that falls short of positive
knowledge.
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24. figure of speech in which non-living objects
are given human qualities.
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25. the unauthorized use or close imitation
of the language and thoughts of another
author and the representation of them
as one’s own original work.
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26. the chain of events that make up a story.
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27. the perspective from which a story is told.
FIRST PERSON: one of the characters, using the
Personal pronoun “I”, is telling the story.
THIRD PERSON LIMITED: narrator focuses on
the thoughts and feelings of only ONE character.
OMNICIENT: “all knowing”. The narrator is NOT
in the story, but knows everything about the
characters and their problems.
28. the leading character, hero, or heroine
of a story.
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29. the point in a story where the main conflict
is worked out.
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30. the events of a story that occur
before the climax.
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31. a comparison between two unlike things, using
words such as “like” or “as” or “resembles”.
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32. something that stands for or suggests something
else by reason or relationship, association or
actual resemblance.
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33. a word having the same or nearly the same
meaning as another word.
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34. the idea about life revealed in a work of
literature.
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35. a conversation between two or more characters.
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36. the process of revealing the personality
of a character in a story.
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37. character struggles against some outside
force (a character, bear, machine, etc)
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38. takes place within a character’s mind.
(guilt, anxiety)
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39. sound patterns that creates a flow in
the writing
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40. the rhythm or “pattern of accented ( ´ )
and unaccented ( ˇ ) syllables” in the lines
of a poem
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41. the rhyming of words at the ends of
lines of poetry.
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42. The repeating of a word or phrase to
add rhythm or to focus on an idea.
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43. the time and place in which the events
of a story takes place.
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