Authors Choice Vocab

Question 1

Exposition

Answer 1

Introduces setting and characters

Question 2

Rising action

Answer 2

Conflict begins and increased

Question 3

Climax

Answer 3

Turning point peak of action and conflict

Question 4

Falling action

Answer 4

Conflict decreases

Question 5

Resolution

Answer 5

Resolve conflict

Question 6

Conflict

Answer 6

The struggle that drives the plot foward

Question 7

External conflict

Answer 7

The probe the characters face in the outside world

Question 8

Internal conflict

Answer 8

A characters emotional struggle

Question 9

Antagonist

Answer 9

The opposing force to the main character

Question 10

Protagonist

Answer 10

The main character/hero

Question 11

Style

Answer 11

The way the author uses words, figurative language,mood,tone,grammar,and sentence structure.

Question 12

Inference

Answer 12

A conclusion drawn from evidence from the text plus prior knowledge

Question 13

Theme

Answer 13

An insight about human life that is traveled in a literary work

Question 14

Characterization

Answer 14

The way the author specific describes the character

Question 15

Direct characterization

Answer 15

When the author tells refers something about the character

Question 16

Indirect characterization

Answer 16

When the authors shows reader something about the character through the characters actions dialogue and thoughts

Question 17

Mood

Answer 17

The general feeling created in the reader after reading the text

Question 18

Tone

Answer 18

The authors attitude toward the subject

Question 19

Setting

Answer 19

The location and time frame in which the action takes place

Question 20

Foreshadow

Answer 20

A advance hint about something that will happen later

Question 21

Flash back

Answer 21

An interjected scene that takes narrative back in time from the current setting

Question 22

Diction

Answer 22

The authors specific choice of words

Question 23

Denotation

Answer 23

The dictionary definition of a word

Question 24

Connotation

Answer 24

The associated meaning behind a word

Question 25

Extended metaphor

Answer 25

A comparison made without using like or as that stretches across sentences or paragraphs

Question 26

Symbolism

Answer 26

An object or action that reprints something more than its literal definition or what is expected

Question 27

Allusion

Answer 27

Beefiest referencing something of weighted cultural literary or historic significance to highlight a connection

Question 28

Imagery

Answer 28

The use of figurative language to represent objects actions and ideas in such a way it appeals to our physical sense

Question 29

Irony

Answer 29

What something on the surface that seems to be true but is the opposite

Question 30

Situational irony

Answer 30

Then the character actions have an effect that is opposite from what was intended do the outcome is contrary to what was expected

Question 31

Dramatic irony

Answer 31

When the audience understands what is actually going on before the character does

Question 32

Verbal irony

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When the literal meaning of what someone says is different form what they mean/sarcasm

Question 33

Idiom

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A common phrase in a particular region or culture that has an understood meaning different from what is sounds like it would mean

Question 34

Personification

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Giving human like traits to animals or objects

Question 35

Point of view

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Whose perspective the sorry is being told from. Point of view can shake the readers understating of the story significantly

Question 36

Patrallelosn

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When a plot idea or character in a story or stories can be connected based on their similarities

Question 37

Formal writing

Answer 37

Style that is professional

Question 38

Informal writion

Answer 38

Style that uses colloquial language that is casual