9th Grade Unit #2 Quiz #5

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

burden

something that is carried with difficulty or obligation

culpability

guilt or blame that is deserved; blameworthiness

conscience

inner sense of what is morally right or wrong in one's actions

remorse

deep sense of regret for having done wrong

entrusted

given the responsibility of doing something or caring for someone or something

empathetic

characterized by empathy, the ability to identify with the feelings or thoughts of others

pitched

moved up and down