Keystone Lit Academic Vocabulary

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Round character

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a character with many traits; is well described; is a three dimensional character

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Static character

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a character who does not change during the course of the literary work

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Dynamic character

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a character who changes during the course of the literary work

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Protagonist

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Main character of a text

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Antagonist

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the adversary of the protagonist working against them; may be any force like a person, nature, an animal, etc.

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generalization

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a broad statement or inference about a group of people, things, or events that is drawn from specific observations or examples.

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inference

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an educated guess; a conclusion based on known facts or clues

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synonym

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a word that is similar in meaning to another word

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antonym

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a word that means the opposite of another word

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alliteration

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when several words close together in neighboring text begin with the same consonant sound/letter (sweet birds sang)