20-40 Keystone Flashcards
Distinguish, tell apart and recognize differences between two or more items.
Differentiate
The genre of literature represented by works intended for the stage; a work to be performed by actors on stage, radio, or television; play.
Drama
The written text of a play, which includes the dialogue between characters, stage directions, and often other expository information.
Dramatic Script
To make judgement or decision based on reasoning rather than direct or implicit statement.
Draw conclusion
Traits that mark a work as imaginative or narrative discourse
Elements of Fiction
Traits that mark a work as reportial, analytical, informative, or argumentative.
Elements of Nonfiction
Examine and judge carefully. To judge or determine the significance, worth, or quality of something; to assess.
Evaluate
To make understandable, plain or clear.
Explain
Clearly expressed or fully stated in the actual text.
Explicit
A narrative device, often used at the beginning of a work that provides necessary background information about the character and their circumstances.
Exposition
A piece of information provided objectively, presented as true
Fact
The part of literary plot that is characterized by diminishing tensions and the resolution of the plot’s conflicts and complications.
Falling action
Any story that is the product of imagination rather than a documentation of fact. Characters and events in such narratives may be based in real life but their ultimate form and configuration is a creation of the author.
Fiction
Language that cannot be taken literally since it was written toc create a special effect or feeling.
Figurative language
The first person or personal point of view relates events as they are perceived by a single character. The narrating character may offer opinions about the action and characters that differ from those of the author.
First person
