Keystone Literature Review ^ Viewing Vocabulary, Pt. V

Question 1

a story, actual or fictional, expressed orally or in text

a person, animal, or thing telling the story or giving an account of something.

Answer 1

narrative

narrator

Question 2

text that is not fictional; designed primarily to explain, argue, instruct or describe rather than entertain

Answer 2

nonfiction

Question 3

a personal view, attitude, or appraisal

Answer 3

opinion

Question 4

an object or abstract idea given human qualities or human form (e.g., Flowers danced about the lawn.)

Answer 4

personification

Question 5

the structure of a story; may have a protagonist who is opposed by an antagonist

Answer 5

plot

Question 6

text that aims to present ideas and evoke an emotional experience in the reader through the use of meter, imagery, and connotative/concrete words; typically relies on words and expressions that have several layers of meaning

Answer 6

poetry

Question 7

the position of the narrator in relation to the story, as indicated by the narrator’s outlook from which the events are depicted (e.g., first person, third person limited, third person omniscient, etc.); the vantage point from which a story is told

Answer 7

point of view

Question 8

groups of letters placed before a word to alter its meaning

Answer 8

prefix

Question 9

information aimed at positively or negatively influencing the opinions or behaviors of large numbers of people

Answer 9

propaganda

Question 10

the portion of a story following the climax in which the conflict is resolved

Answer 10

resolution

Question 11

the part of a story where the plot becomes increasingly complicated; leads up to the climax, or turning point.

Answer 11

rising action

Question 12

a literary approach that ridicules or examines human vice or weakness

Answer 12

satire

Question 13

various sentence structures, styles, and lengths that can enhance the rhythm of or add emphasis to a piece of text; the presence of multiple sentence structures in a text (simple, complex, compound, compound‐complex) and/or various sentence beginnings (e.g., dependent and independent clauses, phrases, single words)

Answer 13

sentence variety

Question 14

the time and place in which a story unfolds

Answer 14

setting

Question 15

a comparison of two unlike things in which a word of comparison (like or as) is used (e.g., “The ant scurried as fast as a cheetah.”)

Answer 15

simile