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Short Story & Poetry Terms Review for Mr. Reddish’s 8 th Grade Language Arts classes

Short Story & Poetry Terms Review for Mr. Reddish’s 8 th Grade Language Arts classes. Short Story Terms. the people or animals that take part in the action. characters. the time and place of the action in a story. setting. a struggle between opposing forces. conflict.

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Short Story & Poetry Terms Review for Mr. Reddish’s 8 th Grade Language Arts classes

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  1. Short Story & Poetry Terms Reviewfor Mr. Reddish’s 8th Grade Language Arts classes

  2. Short Story Terms

  3. the people or animals that take part in the action

  4. characters

  5. the time and place of the action in a story

  6. setting

  7. a struggle between opposing forces

  8. conflict

  9. conflict that takes place in the mind of a character

  10. internal conflict

  11. conflict in which a character struggles with an outside force or another person

  12. external conflict

  13. introduces the setting, the characters, and the basic situation

  14. exposition

  15. introduces the conflict, or problem/ events leading up to the climax

  16. rising action

  17. the turning point of a story / highest point of action

  18. climax

  19. the part of the story when the conflict lessens / events after the climax

  20. falling action

  21. a story’s conclusion

  22. resolution

  23. the perspective from which a story is told

  24. point of view

  25. the contrast between an actual outcome and what the reader or the characters expect will happen

  26. irony

  27. the use of clues that hint at future events

  28. foreshadowing

  29. the use of scenes within a story that interrupt the sequence of events to reveal past occurences

  30. flashback

  31. the central message expressed in a story

  32. theme

  33. a message about life that is often expressed in many different eras and cultures

  34. universal theme

  35. Poetry Terms

  36. the repetition of consonant sounds at the beginnings of words

  37. alliteration

  38. writing that is innovative, imaginative, and not meant to be taken literally

  39. figurative language

  40. describes one thing as if it were something else

  41. metaphor

  42. uses like or as to compare two unlike things

  43. simile

  44. gives human qualities to something nonhuman

  45. personification

  46. the use of words that imitate sounds

  47. onomatopoeia

  48. writing or speech that appeals to one or more of the five senses—sight, sound, smell, taste, and touch

  49. imagery

  50. help poets add natural pauses by breaking up a poem into many individual parts

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