Week 2 Vocabulary Words

A conversation between two or more people as a feature of a book, play, or film.

• Conversation

• Dialogue

• Communication

• Discourse

(of words and phrases) used not with their basic meaning but with a more imaginative meaning, in order to create a special effect

• Non-literal

• Symbolic

• Metaphorical

• Figurative

the conclusion of a story's plot

• Finish

• Ending

• Resolution

• Closing

adds the details that help you visualize the characters and events in your mind's eye

• Illustrative

• Descriptive

• Pictorial

• Vivid

a person in a novel, play, or film

• Character

• Personality

• Role

• Part

a person who recounts the events of a novel or narrative poem.

• Storyteller

• Reporter

• Annalist

• narrator

be a warning or indication of (a future event).

a circumstance that complicates something; a difficulty

the suspense that keeps the reader reading

• Apprehension

• Tension

• Suspense

• Nerves

a state or feeling of excited or anxious uncertainty about what may happen.