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Goodson ELA LT 21-40
Question | Answer |
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Conflict | a struggle between opposing forces. An external conflict involves a character who struggles against a force outside himself. An internal conflict is one that occurs within a character. ex. man vs nature man vs himself |
Man vs man | character against character |
man vs nature | man mad at nature |
man vs self | man against himself |
man vs society | man against society |
Connotation | ideas of feeling, associated with the word ex. home, comfort, security |
Denotation | dictionary definition of a word ex. word home is dwelling place, conclusion is warm, comport (jaden you can't spell, what is this suppose to say) |
Critiquing | a careful judgement in which you give yoru opion about the good and bad parts of something. ex. having to fix something that is very small |
Dialogue | written conversation between two or more characters ex. you are in dialogue when texting with someone |
Diction | word choice, what words to convey and how to say it. can help you know author tone and purpose. ex. how the author exposes' himself. |
Figurative language | language that communicates meanings beyond the literal meaning of words ex. Sussie is the sunshine to my day |
Flashback | an inturputation of the action to present event that took place at earlier time. ex. when you are sitting in math and think about past weekend |
Foreshadowing | a writer provides hints that suggest future events in a story. It creates suspend and makes the reager eager to find out what will happen. ex. A character is cleaning a gun and later in the story someone is killed. |
Genre | a category that literature classified ex. Dr. Suse action |
Fiction | in the form of prose especially short storys and novels with imaginary people. ex. people we meat on vacation is fiction |
Realistic Fiction | a genre of fiction that is set in the modern present with human ex. B.F.G. |
Mystery | involves the search for answers around them ex. An then there was none |
Adventure | Consist of incredible journeys of the struggle to survive ex. jungle book |
Historical fiction | a genre of fiction set in the past. real people, places and things ex. Wendys war |
Science fiction | genre of fiction that is set in the future and based on the impact of real ex. 1984 Book |
Dystopian fiction | set in the past apocalypses society or future society in the law. ex. Hands maid tail |
Fantasy | a genre of fiction that contain magical elements such as non-existent worlds, talking animals and other creatures. ex. Harry potter |
Nonfiction | pose writing that is based on facts, real people, such as biography or history. ex. facts about snakes |
Informational | writing that informs. it is a tpye of nonfiction writing, which means it is factual. ex. Book about Bees |