PSSA+Vocabulary+Week+3

Fable Fairy Tale-//Short narrative featuring mytical beings such as fairies, elves, and sprites. These tales originally belonged to the folklore of a particular nation or region wuch as those collected in Germany by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm.//-Nikki Klemens Fiction-//Any story that is the product opf imagination rather than a documentation of fact. Characters and events in such narratives may be based in real life but their ultimate form and configuration is a creation of the author.(Michael Wattman)//

Figurative Language First Person //The "first person" or "personal" point of view relates events as they are perceived by a single character. The main character "tells" the story and may offer opinions about the action and characters that differ from those of the author.// Dylan Hughes Flashback //A device used in literature to present action that occurred before the beginning of the story. Flashbacks are often introduced as the dreams or recollections of one or more characters. Madison LaMantia//

Fluency Focus--a central point, as of attraction, attention, or activity.. FAINT Folktales- //Any story that is the product opf imagination rather than a documentation of fact. Characters and events in such narratives may be based in real life but their ultimate form and configuration is a creation of the author -// Lizzy Naples Foreshadowing Free Verse Generalization Genre Graphic Organizer Implicit: Implied, rather than expressly stated-Chandler Mical Inference //judgment based on reasoning rather than on direct or explicit statement. A conclusion based on facts or circumstances; understanding gained by "reading between the lines" (maddie bonner)//

Inflectional Ending

//The clear, easy, written or spoken expression of ideas; freedom from word-identification problems that might hinder comprehension in silent reading or the expression of ideas in oral reading.

A judgment based on reasoning rather than on direct or explicit statement. A conclusion based on facts or circumstances; understanding gained by "reading between the lines"

A story originating in oral tradition. Folktales fall into a variety of categories, including legends, ghost stories, fairy tales, fables and anecdotes based on historical figures and events.

A category used to classify literary works, usually by form, technique or content (e.g., prose, poetry)

Poetry that lacks regular metrical and rhyme patterns but that tries to capture the cadences of everyday speech. The form allows a poet to exploit a variety of rhythmical effects within a single poem.

Short narrative featuring mytical beings such as fairies, elves, and sprites. These tales originally belonged to the folklore of a particular nation or region wuch as those collected in Germany by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm.

A device used in literature to present action that occurred before the beginning of the story. Flashbacks are often introduced as the dreams or recollections of one or more characters.//

//A conclusion, drawn from specific information, that is used to make a broad statement about a topic or person.

The center of interest or attention

A diagram or pictorial device that shows relationships

Language that cannot be taken literally since it was written to create a special effect or feeling

A form, suffix, or element added to the end of a word that changes the form of the word to mark such distinctions as those of case, gender, number, tense, person, mood, or voice.

Narrative intended to convey a moral. Animals or inanimate objets with human characteristics often serve as characters in fables.

A device used in literature to create expectations or to set up an explanation of later developments

Any story that is the product opf imagination rather than a documentation of fact. Characters and events in such narratives may be based in real life but their ultimate form and configuration is a creation of the author

The "first person" or "personal" point of view relates events as they are perceived by a single character. The main character "tells" the story and may offer opinions about the action and characters that differ from those of the author.

Meanings which, though unexpressed in literal text, may be understood by the reader, implied.//