L.Arts Vocabulary
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- simile
- A comparision of two unlikely things, using like or as
- 1st person point of view
- The narrator is a character in the story (I, me, we, our)
- symbols
- Anything that stands for or represents something else
- exposition
- In the beginning of a book or story when the author introduces the characters, setting and conflict
- falling Action
- The events that follow after the turning point
- genre
- a French word that means type or form of liturature e.g. fiction, nonfiction, poetry, drama, etc.
- e.g.
- an abbreviation that means: "for example"
- imagery
- When poets and writers use words to help the readers visualize their settings, characters, feelings etc. Poets often use images to describe how the subject looks, sounds, feels, tastes and smells.
- autobiography
- A form of nonfiction in which a person tells his/her own life story
- plot
- All the events that happen in a story from beginning to end
- hyperbole
- A figure of speech that uses exaggeration to express strong emotion, make a point, or show humor
- comprehension
- To show that you understand something
- Glossary
- A part of a book found at the back that contains difficult words and their meanings
- Appendix
- A part of a book found at the back that gives additional information
- Index
- A part of a book found in the back that gives you page numbers for concepts, people, events
- metaphor
- A comparison of two unlikely things WITHOUT using like or as
- stanza
- paragraphs in a poem
- personification
- Giving human qualities or characteristics to animals, ideas, or things
- antonym
- Words with opposite meaningw
- caption
- The words underneath or beside a picture or photograph that describe what is in the picture.
- biography
- A nonfiction story written about someone else's life, A form of nonfiction in which a writer tells the life of another person.
- rising Action
- The events that lead up to the turning point
- cutaway
- A diagram that slices an object in half so that you can see what is inside
- implied or implicit meaning
- When an author or speaker does NOT state their meaning directly
- inference
- a conclusion or guess that is determined by the evidence in the story,
- Text Structures
- This is the format of a story or article. It is how the author organizes the information. Some of the most common of these are: chronological order, compare and contrast, question and answer, problem and solution
- point of view
- Who's telling the story. Is the story being told by one of the characters inside the story or by someone that is outside the story
- i.e
- an abbreviation that means: "that is... " or "in other words"
- 3rd person limited point of view
- The narrator tells the inner thoughts and feelings of only one character
- format
- How information appears on a page. The way in which an author organizes the information to present it to the readers
- literal meaning
- The actual meaning of a word or a phrase
- Text Features
- Captions, photographs, diagrams, bold print, headings, subheadings, side bar, boxed information.
- conflict
- The problem that the main character faces
- resolution
- This is also called the conclusion or ending of a story
- theme
- The writer's message to the reader, the main idea in the story
- root Word
- the basic word you start with before adding prefixes or suffixes
- footnote
- a printed note or definition placed below the text at the bottom of a printed page
- Chronological order
- When the event in the story are in time order from beginning to middle to end
- 3rd person omniscient
- The narrator knows and tells about what more than one character knows and feels
- author's purpose
- The reason an author writes an article or story. The three most common are: to inform, to persuade or to entertain
- drawing conclusions
- Same thing as making inferences
- Table of Contents
- A part of a book found in the front that helps you locate where chapters begin, page numbers for stories, and other parts of a book
- construct meaning
- To make meaning of something you have read
- mood
- The feeling that is created in the reader , The way the story makes the reader feel
- prefix
- a syllable, (which has its own meaning), joined to the beginning of a word to change that word's meaning
- dialogue
- A conversasion between two or more people or characters. In literature it is shown with quotation marks "..."
- suffix
- a syllable, (which has its own meaning), joined to the end of a word to change that word's meaning and part of speech
- turning point or climax
- The moment of greatest tension in a story, when the outcome of the story hangs in the balanceThe point in the story when the reader knows who wins in the conflict
- synonyms
- words that have similar meanings
- setting
- The time and place in which a story occurs