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Literary Terms 2 08
Literary terms
| Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
| Predict | Try to figure out what might happen next. Then read on to see how accurate your guesses were. |
| Visualize | Picture the people, places, and events being described to help you understand what’s happening. |
| Connect | Connect personally with what you’re reading. Think of similarities between what is being described and what you have experienced, heard about, or read about. |
| Question | Ask questions about events in the material you’re reading. What happened? Why? How do the people involved feel about the events? Searching for reasons can help you feel closer to what you are reading. |
| Clarify | From time to time, review your understanding of what you have read. You can do this by summarizing what you have read, identifying the main idea, and making inferences – drawing conclusions from what you have read. |
| Evaluate | Form opinions about what you read, both while you’re reading and after you’ve finished. Develop your own ideas about people, places, and events. |
| Rising Action | series of small conflicts serving to build the plot |
| Mini conflicts | small conflicts/problems occurring during rising action |
| Climax | turning point of a story – occurs just before the major conflict is solved |
| Interview | Conversation between two people in which one person asks the other a series of prepared question in order to gain information about the second person |
| Resolution | end of the story – loose ends are “tied up” |
| Dynamic character | character changes during the story |
| Static character | character remains the same throughout the story |
| Protagonist | hero / central character |
| Antagonist | opposing character or force (of nature) |
| Voice | a writer's unique use of language |
| Genre | type of literature or format of writing |
| Fiction | prose created from the imagination and usually narrative |
| Science fiction | interplanetary travel is often part of the story; time travel may be part of the story |
| Historical fiction | tells a story that is partly based on actual historical events and is partly made up |
| literary devices | rhetorical elements used to create a desired mood or tone in a piece of writing |
| autobiography | story written by the author about the author's life |
| essay | scholarly writing about a specific topic; the author writes what he knows and understands about a particular topic |
| informative article | news story or feature story to provide objective accounts of an event or to provide human interest stories on people of events |
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