Academic Vocabulary Word List with Definitions - TEST TOMORROW

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I need these flashcards to study for before my EXAM TEST TOMORROW in English 2 5th period.
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1. Allusion - An author's purposeful reference shapes theme.
2. Antagonist - A person who actively opposes or is hostile to someone or something; an adversary.
3. Climax - The point in a narrative at which the conflict or tension hits the highest point.
4. Conflict - A literary element that involves a struggle between two opposing forces usually a protagonist and an antagonist.
5. Connotation - Additional meaning associated with the words (emotions, ideas, and other words).
6. Denotation - Direct and specific meaning.
7. Dynamic character - A character that changes throughout the course of the narrative.
8. Exposition - A literary device used to introduce background information about events, settings, characters etc. To the audience or readers.
9. Falling action - The part of a literary plot that occurs after the climax has been reached and the conflict has been resolved.
10. Fiction - Literature in the form of prose, especially short stories and novels, that describes imaginary events and people.
11. Flashback - Moments identified by the author that relate to previous events.
12. Flat character - Characters that are two-dimensional and are relatively uncomplicated.
13. Foreshadowing - Clues by the author that allude to later events.
14. Inciting incident - The event that sets the central conflict in motion.
15. Mood - feeling(s) evoked in the reader as a reaction to the narrative's atmosphere.
16. Narrative - A spoken or written account of connected events; a story.
17. Plot - The events take make up a storyline.
18. Point-of-view - The narrator's position in relation to the story being told.
19. Protagonist - The leading character or one of the major characters in a drama, movie, novel, or other fictional text.
20. Resolution - The point in a literary work at which the chief dramatic complication is worked out.
21. Rising action - A related series of incidents in a literary plot that build toward the point of greatest interest.
22. Round character - A realistic character that displays multiple character traits that is complex.
23. Static character - A character that does not change throughout the course of the narrative.
24. Theme - A main idea or an underlying meaning of a literary work that may be stated directly or indirectly.
25. Tone - Author's attitude toward the subject/topic evoked through diction.
Flat and round characters - Are opposites.
Static and dynamic characters - Are opposites.
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