Unit 2 Vocabulary Review

When a story starts out in the middle then flashes back to the beginning and then skips to the end. 

       (middle, beginning, end)

• fiction

• notfiction

• in medias res

• flashback

When a work presents material that occurred prior to the opening scene of the work.

• flashback

• fiction

• nonfiction

• parallism

A story that is not true

• flashback

• fiction

• nonfiction

• parallism

A story that is true.

• flashback

• fiction

• nonfiction

• parallism

When a writer expresses ideas of equal importance with the same grammatical form. 

• parallism

• syntax

• understatement

• main idea

An extreme “under”exaggeration.

• parallism

• syntax

• understatement

• main idea

The POINT of the story

• parallism

• syntax

• understatement

• main idea

The order of words used to express an idea.

• parallism

• syntax

• understatement

• main idea

 What the story is about; THE SUBJECT

• autobiography

• biography

• idiom

• topic

A true story written by the author about his/her own life.

• autobiography

• biography

• idiom

• topic