Academic Language Flashcards

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What is plot

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Series of related events that make up a story

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What are subplots

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A minor plot that relates in somway to the story

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What is aInciting Incident

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The event in a story that causes the conflict

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What is aConflict/problem/issue

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A struggle between two opposing forces enternal and external

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What is aResolution

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Conflict is resolved and the story is brought to a close

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What is the Climax

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Point in the story that creats the greatest suspence or or interest

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What is Expisition

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Introduction of a story or book, when the characters and setting are first described

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What is a Theme/central idea

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An insight or idea about life

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What is a Protagonist

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Main character in a peice of literature

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What is a Antagonists

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Another character opposingbthe protaganist

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What is Mood

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Overall feeling of a wordk of literature

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What is Tone

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The attitude a writer talk towards his or hers subject or characters

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What is Foreshadowing

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use of clues or hints to suggest events that will occur later in the story

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What is First person

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is from the perspective of a character told using pronouns like “I,” “me,” “my,” “we,” “us,” or “our.”

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What is Second person

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the narrator uses “you” to describe the reader’s thoughts, actions, and background or may speak directly to the audience using “you,” “you’re,” and “your.”

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What is Third person

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Third-person is narrated by an external narrator. (He, she, Him, her, they)

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What is Third person

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is narrated by an external narrator. (He, she, Him, her, they)

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What is Third person omniscient

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The narrator is all-knowing and has access to the thoughts, feelings, and actions of all the characters.

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What is Third person limited

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The narrator only has access to the thoughts and emotions of one character, usually following that character through the story and describing events that they experience.

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What is Characterization

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the way a writer reveals the personality of a character
S: What he/she Says (Allowing us to hear the character speak)
T: What he/she Thinks (Reveal the character’s thoughts and feelings)
E: What Everyone says about him/her (Showing how others react to the character)
A: What his/her Actions are (Showing the character in action/what they do)
L: What he/she Looks like (Describing the appearance of the character)

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What is Figurative Language

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figures of speech not literally true

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What is Imagery

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language that appeals to the five senses

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What is alliteration

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the repetition of consonant sounds in two or more

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What are metaphors

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comparison between two unlike things

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What are similes

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comparison between two unlike things using like or as

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What are idioms

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a phrase that means something different that

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What are onomatopoeia

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a word associated with a sound EX: slam, sizzle

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What is personification

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the act of giving human characteristics to something not human

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What is irony

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Difference between what is meant and what is said

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What is verbal irony

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the difference between what is said and what is

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What is situational Irony

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occurs when what happens is very different from what we expected would happen

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What is dramatic Irony

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occurs when the audience or the reader knows something the character does not