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FICTION
Fiction Academic Vocabulary
Term | Definition |
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setting | the TIME AND PLACE of a story |
character | a PERSON or ANIMAL in a story, poem, book, play or movie |
conflict | the PROBLEM |
resolution | SOLVING the conflict |
plot | the EVENTS in a story, book, movie, or play |
theme | the CENTRAL or universal IDEA; MESSAGE |
conclude | to think about carefully and FORM AN OPINION after reading a piece of text |
point of view | the perspective from which the events in the story are being told |
author's purpose | the reason the author wrote the text |
sequence | to put events of a story in ORDER |
folktales | stories that have been PASSED DOWN through many generations |
fables | stories that TEACH a LESSON |
fairytales | stories with enchanted, MAKE-BELIEVE CHARACTERS and events |
legends | stories about the GREAT DEEDS of HEROES |
myths | stories that EXPLAIN something ABOUT NATURE with gods and goddesses as characters. |