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What is the moral or lesson of a text called?
Theme
What is the character's personality revealed by physical appearance, actions, inner thoughts, reactions, and speech called?
Characterization
What is it called when an author directly tells the reader what the character's personality or physical traits are?
Direct Characterization
What is it called when you directly quote another person's words?
Direct Quote/Direct Citation
What is it call when you quote, paraphrase, summarize, and/or make a reference to information from articles/texts to support your answer or thinking?
Citing textual evidence
What is it called when you state something in your writing that is considered a truth or position
Claim
What is a struggle between two opposing forces in a story or play called? Examples are: Man vs. Man, Man vs. Nature, Man vs. Society, Man vs. Technology, Man vs. Self
Conflict
What form of irony involves the reader or audience having knowledge about the situation whereas the characters do not?
Dramatic Irony
This is the structure of a fictional text that includes the exposition, inciting incident, rising action, climax, falling action, and resolution.
Plot
This is the non-literal meaning of a word or phrase. Examples include: Hyperbole, idiom, metaphor, personification, simile, symbol, etc.
Figurative meaning/language
When we make an educated guess based on the provided information.
Inference
Animals, people, and/or creatures in stories who take part in the action
Character
Where and when the story takes place. This can positively or negatively impact characters
Setting
How the conflict is resolved
Resolution
The way the writing makes the reader feel.
Mood
When the narrator participates in the story
First-person point of view
