(5) (6) Responding to Literature I & II
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Tone | The way the author feels about the subject |
| setting | the location and time of a story |
| Character | the kind of people we encounter in our reading |
| Mood | the emotional feeling or attitude we find in the word |
| Theme | the main idea of a piece of literature |
| Latin roots | a modern word has a Latin word as its origin |
| Dialogue | or portions of a story in which characters speak to one another - enclosed with quotation marks |
| Point of View | the perspective from which the story is told |
| Conflict | whenever any two forces or even ideas oppose each other |
| Resolution | conflict has been resolved |
| First person | narrator is a part of the story |
| Third person | narrator is not in the story & not a character at all |
| Person vs. Person | two people oppose each other / One person usually wins |
| Person vs. Nature | people are fighting against the forces of nature / persons are usually successful or not successful |
| Person vs. Self | person has to make a difficult decision / the person must eventually make a decision. |
| External Conflict | stuggle between character and an outside force |
| Internal Conflict | stuggle that takes place in a characters mind |
| Climax | Resolves the conflict |
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