Academic Vocabulary #5

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What are stage directions?

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To describe where and when a scene takes place and how actors should move.

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Which pronouns are used in first person narration?

Back

I, me, we, us

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What is a legend?

Back

A traditional story sometimes regarded as historical but unauthenticated.

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What is traditional literature?

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Stories that were originally told verbally and later became written text.

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What is alliteration?

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The occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent words.

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What is a narrative?

Back

A spoken or written account of connected events; a story.

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What is a fable?

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A short story, typically with animals as characters, conveying a moral.

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What is a metaphor?

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A figure of speech that makes a comparison between two unlike things without using 'like' or 'as'.

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What is a simile?

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A figure of speech that compares two different things using 'like' or 'as'.

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What is a theme?

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The central topic, subject, or message within a narrative.