Semester Exam Flashcards
The conflicts and complications that develop a story are introduced
Rising action
Background information or events necessary to understand the story are introduced
Exposition
The turning point the most intense moment
Climax
Action after the climax
Falling action
The conclusion wrapping up
Resolution
The sequence of related events that make up a story
Plot
The perspective from which a story is told
Point of view
A type of writing that tells a story or describes a sequence of events
Narrative
When the person telling the story is apart of the story
First person
When someone outside of the story is telling it
Third person
Narrative elements
Incident response reflection
What happened in the story
Incident
The feelings and thoughts of the people involved in the story
Response
The lesson being learned
Reflection
How you will used what you learned in the future
Reflection
What are the four elements of Revision
Add subtract move substitute
To assign or distribute into shares or portions
Allot
Slanting or sloping
Oblique
Of or relating to a slave
Servile
Words that appeal to the senses
Sensory details
What are the types of leads
Action, dialogue ,reaction
Starts with the main character doing something
Action lead
Starts with speaking between characters
Dialogue lead
Starts with a character thinking or reflecting on am event
Reaction lead
Myth folk take fairy tale legend talk take fable and fantasy
Folk literate
Celebrates heroic individuals or significant achievements tend to express values of a culture
Legend
Fantasy elements often involves prince and princesses told to entertain children
Fairy tale
A story from the past involves gods of heroes explains beliefs customs or mysterious natural phenomena and or identifys correct behavior
Myth
Highly exaggerated and often humorous story about folk heroes
Tall tale
An anonymous traditional story passed down orally
Folk tale
A brief story that teaches a lesson or moral usually through animals
Fable
Witches goblins and elves
Fantasy
The characters appearance
What the character says and does
What others say about the charecter
Characterization
Independent clause can stand alone
Simple
Two independent clauses put together with a comma
Compound
Find a word or phrase in a narrative that captures the major idea
Writing a title
Place/going somewhere
To
The number 2
Two
Also/agreeing
To
Mincer way of saying something
Positive connotations
Not so nice way of saying something
Negative connotation
Word comparing each other using like or as
Simile
Comparing two unlike objects
Metaphor
Giving animals human like qualitys
Personification
