Language Arts
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EllieHarris2018 on August 1, 2012
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 irony | a contrast between expectation and reality -situation irony -verbal irony -dramatic irony |
| flashback | a scene within a story that interrupts the sequence of events to relate events that occurred in the past |
| foreshadowing | the authors use of clues to hint what might happen later in a story |
| setting | a literary work is the time and place of the action |
| mood | feeling created in the reader by a literary work or passage |
| tone | a literary work that is the writers attitude toward his/her audience and subject |
| dialogue | a conversation between characters |
| characters | a person or animal that takes place in the action of a literary work |
| characterization | the act of creating or developing a character |
| plot | the sequence of events |
| conflict | problem in the story |
| adverb | modifies verbs, adjectives or other adverbs (most adverbs end in -ly, but not always |
| point of view | the way someone looks at something through their perspective |
| symbolism | a way where an object represents an idea |
| compare and contrast | finding similarities and differences between 2 things |
| context clues | information from the reading that hints at a word's meaning. |
| omnicient | all knowing- narrator knows characters feeling and thoughts |
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