English 1 Elements of Literature Vocabulary

Characters are

• the people or animals that drive the action of the story

• the time and place in which a story happens

• when an author makes a comparison

• when something stands for something larger than itself

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CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

The clues an author gives about a character through the characters' dress, mannerisms, actions, and attitudes are called

• protagonist

• setting

• characterization

• dialogue

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CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

The time and place in which a story happens is called what?

• the metaphor

• the setting

• the symbol

• the simile

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CCSS.W.8.2D

CCSS.L.6.6

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

CCSS.L.8.6

Spoken words in a story are called what?

• developments

• derailment

• diameter

• dialogue

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CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.2.6

This type of language is what an author uses to evoke the readers' feelings or senses of smell, taste, or touch.

• sinister language

• indirect language

• figurative language

• direct language

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CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

The main idea that runs through a story is the story's what?

• theme

• point

• dialogue

• setting

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CCSS.W.8.2D

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.W.6.2D

CCSS.L.11-12.6

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

What is a simile?

• the way an author describes characters

• something that stands for something larger than itself

• When an author makes a comparison using the words "like" or "as"

• When an author makes a comparison without using the words "like" or "as"

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CCSS.W.8.2D

CCSS.L.6.6

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

CCSS.W.6.2D

CCSS.L.9-10.6

What is personification?

• when an author gives a nonhuman human characteristics

• when an author gives animal characteristics to a human character

• when a character speaks to another character

• when a character gets stuck in the past tense

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CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

What kind of narrator sees all?

• fancy narrator

• unreliable narrator

• omniscient narrator

• first person narrator

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CCSS.RL.6.6

CCSS.RL.8.6

CCSS.RL.5.6

CCSS.RL.7.6

What is the opposite of an antagonist?

• personification

• protagonist

• people

• symbol

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CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.11-12.3