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Expository Text - Answer- Informational text. Includes references or resource works,
textbooks, and informational materials most often used in subject or content areas and
regularly used in schools.
Narrative Text - Answer- Literature that may be used in subjects but is often for
pleasure or based on a the reader's interest.
Plot - Answer- The sequential order of events within a narrative.
Exposition, Rising Action, Climax, Falling Action, Resolution
Setting - Answer- The physical location and/or time of the narrative or events of the
narrative. Setting can be developed directly through description or can be inferred
through context clues, word choice, and dialogue of characters.
Theme - Answer- The view, belief, or message that is an underlying message of the
narrative. It is not directly stated but is left up to the reader to determine it from what has
been read.
Rising action - Answer- A string of events that builds up from the conflict, which then
moves toward the climax.
Falling action - Answer- A series of events occurring after the climax that bring the story
to a conclusion.
Resolution - Answer- The conclusion of the story and the completion of the action.
First person point of view - Answer- The author takes the point of view of a character
providing personal thoughts or feelings and shares what other characters do and say.
This is the "I" narrator.
Third person omniscient point of view - Answer- Author can follow all characters around
and all times and knows thoughts and feelings of all characters.
Third person limited point of view - Answer- Author follows one character around and
knows all things about this character.
Direct Characterization - Answer- A character is described by the author, the narrator,
or the other characters.
, Indirect Characterization - Answer- A character's traits are exposed by actions and
speech, etc.
Protagonist - Answer- The primary or main character in a piece of literature, but may not
be the hero or heroine
Antagonist - Answer- A character or force (nature, society, a person) that may oppose
the protagonist in a piece of literature.
Alliteration - Answer- The use of language in which the consonant sounds are repeated,
generally at the beginning of a word or within words.
Figurative language - Answer- The use of words, phrases, or other language structures
that change the literal meaning of the words used. Uses the literal or ordinary words and
constructs them in an imaginary way to add beauty, strength, or a different context to
the structure.
Idiom - Answer- A group of words with a special, more figurative meaning instead of the
literal meaning.
Simile - Answer- A figure of speech that is a comparison of two unrelated objects,
concepts, or ideas through the use of the words like or as.
Personification - Answer- The use of descriptive words in such a way as to give human
characteristics to a nonhuman thing such as an object, idea, or animal. Helps convey a
particular feeling or attitude toward the item and allows the reader to form their own
perception.
Analogy - Answer- The comparison of similar objects, which suggests that since the
objects are similar in some ways that they will probably be alike in other ways.
Symbol - Answer- A real or concrete object that is used to represent an idea or concept.
Ex. red octagon symbolizes stop.
Foreshadow - Answer- A hint or clue that the author provides to the reader to suggest
what will happen next or at sometime in the future in the story or narrative.
Flashback - Answer- Break in the plot to describe and event that happened at an earlier
time.
Imagery - Answer- A specific use of language that appeals to the readers' senses. It
may be used to describe people or objects and is influenced by the use of the five
senses. Forming mental pictures by the reader and to form these pictures while reading.
Allusion - Answer- An implied or indirect reference especially in literature