reading k-12

the sequence of events inside a story which affect other events through the principle of cause and effect

event in which what appears, on the surface, to be the case, differs radically from what is actually the case

written/spoken conversational exchange between 2/more people & literary & theatrical form that depict such an exchange

philosophical study of meaning-in language, programming languages, formal logics, and semiotics

the act of determining and graphically representing the metrical character of a line of verse

literacy is the ability to read, write, and use arithmetic

As a literary device, an allegory in its most general sense is an extended metaphor

study of words, how they are formed, and their relationship to other words in the same language

used to explain a child's knowledge of reading and writing skills before they learn how to read and write words

is the view that certain skills or abilities are "native" or hard-wired into the brain at birth

Free verse is an open form of poetry

purification and purgation of emotions-especially pity and fear-through art or any extreme change in emotion

group of characters, institution/concept that stands in/represents opposition against which the protagonist must contend

study of the history of words, their origins, and how their form and meaning have changed over time

attached to a womorpheme that appears only as part of a larger wordrd stem to form a new word

language exhibits grammatical structure, natural flow of speech rather than rhythmic structure as in traditional poetry

work of written, fictional, narrative prose normally longer than a short story but shorter than a novel

appears in areas relating to behavior, modern psychological theory, and literary analysis

meter is the pattern of poetic stresses

morpheme that is attached to a word stem to form a new word

is the smallest unit of a writing system of any given language

is an affix which is placed after the stem of a word example -al -ance -dom

transferring information or meaning from a particular subject to another