English I Final

Presents the facts about an individual's life explaining the person's feelings and motivations.

bio

hemi

juven

time and place of a story

central problem in a story

Ten strangers are invited to Soldier Island.

temp

words that have the same meaning

derm

words that are opposites

what comes before the root word

epic poem in 24 books traditionally attributed to the ancient Greek poet Homer. The poem is the story of Odysseus

main part of a word, part with no prefix or suffix

An age-old vendetta between two powerful families erupts into bloodshed. Romeo falls instantly in love with Juliet

literature in the form of prose, especially short stories and novels, that describes imaginary events and people.

literature whose content is imaginative, but based in science

told through the narrator’s eyes, as he looks back on his childhood, and the life of his younger brother, Doodle.

odor

Rainsford falls overboard from a yacht. The island is the private domain of General Zaroff, sinister European aristocrat

neur(o)

the associative meaning of a word in addition to the literal meaning

retro

brief fictional prose narrative that is shorter than a novel and that usually deals with only a few characters.

speculative fiction set in a fictional universe, often inspired by real world myth and folklore

figurative language that is overemphasized

work in which special intensity is given to the expression of feelings by the use of distinctive style and rhythm

comparison not using like/as

mal

comparison using like/as

omni

kine

A subgenre of narrative fiction; often thought of as a detective story.

When the author goes back in time in a story

Death Visits the Master. Setting in a rose garden underscores the relationships among death, nature, and human beings

When the conflict in a story is solved

prose writing that is based on facts, real events, and real people, such as biography or history.

a mode of fictional representation through dialogue and performance.

the overall message that the author wants to deliver, lesson to learn

when something stands for/represents something else

path

when something non-human is given people characteristics

infra

rhin(o)

comes after a root word

lact

nom

agri

cent(i)

the way a story makes you feel, can be happy or eerie

a classic or legendary story that explains mysteries of nature, existence, or the universe with no true basis in fact

sub

what happens in a story

Harper Lee uses characters to explore civil rights and racism in the segregated Southern United States of the 1930s

clues/hints in a story to let you know what will happen later

important

pater