ELA and Social Studies Vocab Bowl 2

seeing into the underlying truth

describes how people, information, goods, and culture got to a particular place.

a character who undergoes an important innerchange, change in beliefs,personality, or attitude

a word or line that is repeated in a poem repeated in each stanza of a poem

long poems that tell the story of a hero

an exaggeration that cannot possibly be true

hints or clues that suggest what may happen later in the story

problems that get in the way of a character who is trying to reach a goal

a unified body of individuals

a genre of fiction that contains magical elements such as talking animals and superpowers

written works that are considered to be very good and to have lasting importance

narrator is an outside observer that focuses on the thoughts and feelings of only one character

a character that you know a lot about (well-developed)

a folktale with unbelievable exaggerations told as if it were true and meant to be humorous

the story's main character

giving human qualities to nonhuman things

a comparison of two unlike things using the words like or as

the Sumerian system of writing, which used symbols to represent basic parts of words

techniques that writers use to make a story more interesting & enhance the reader's experience

a pyramid-shaped temple tower

a restatement of a text or passage giving the meaning differently, rewording

a ruler of a kingdom or empire

a strip of land connecting two continents

story that is made up but is set in the past & borrows true characteristics of the time period

the pattern of weather conditions in a certain area over a long period of time.

told from the viewpoint of one of the characters using the pronouns "I" and "We"

a struggle, mental or physical, between two characters, sometimes with the antagonist

a story from the past that is believed by many people but cannot be proven to be true

interrupting the plot of the story to recreate an incident of earlier time

the knowledge, beliefs, customs, and values of a group of people

the Chaldean king who rebuilt Babylon

the worship of many gods

land with different territories and peoples under a single rule

a character that you do not know well (under-developed)

a regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables

is the study of people and the places where they live.

a political unit consisting of a city and the surrounding countryside

earliest known written collection of laws, comprising 282 laws that dealt with every day life

the repetition of the same initial consonant sound in a series of words

the formation of mental images, figures, or likenesses of things