9th Grade Unit #2 Quiz #4

direct characterization

a writer states the character's traits, or characteristics

indirect characterization

a writer depends on the reader to draw conclusions about the character's traits.

motivation

the reason a character takes an action

epiphany

an experience of a sudden and striking realization

diction

word choice

frame story

a story that brackets or frames another story or group of stories

transition words

words or phrases that connect one idea to another

character

A person or animal that takes part in the action of a literary work

conflict

A struggle between opposing forces

primary sources

raw material or first-hand information about what is being studied

secondary sources

a source that was created later by someone who did not experience first-hand or participate in the events or conditions you’re researching

simile

a figure of speech in which the words like or as are used to compare two apparently dissimilar items.

metaphor

a figure of speech in which one thing is spoken of as though it were something else.

idiom

an expression that is characteristic of a language, region, community or class of people. Cannot be understood literally.

-vid-

to see

-cred-

to believe

-val-

worth

-form-

shape

-log-

word; reason

-tion

changes the word to a noun.

-path-

feeling

-ory/-ary

having to do with; characterized by; or tending to

desperate

feeling, showing, or involving a hopeless sense that a situation is so bad as to be impossible to deal with.

entranced

in a state of wonder or amazement

hallucination

something perceived that has no reality

premonition

a feeling that something bad will happen

profound

intense, deep

meditative

given to extended thought