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• Narration - the act or process of telling a story
• Author - the person who writes the story
• Narrator - the person who tells the story
• Character - the person who acts out the story
• Characters, Setting, Plot, POV - Elements of a Narrative/story
• Characters - the people, animals, or inanimate objects
• Protagonist - the main character in the story
• Antagonist - stands against the protagonist
• Setting - the time & location in w/c a story takes place
• Plot - a planned, logical series of events having a beginning, middle & end
• Exposition, Rising Action, Climax, Falling Action, Denouement - parts of plot
• Exposition - the part of the story where the characters & the setting are revealed
• Rising Action - this is where the events having a beginning, middle & end
• Climax - this is the highest point of interest & the turning point of the story
• Falling Action - the events & complications begin to resolve themselves
• Denouement - the final resolution of the plot in the story
• Point of View (POV) - the perspective of the writer in narrating the story
• First-Person pov, Second-Person pov, Third-Person pov - modes of POV
• First-Person pov - the narrator is involved in the story. (I, Me)
• Second-Person pov - the readers actions are narrated. ( You, Your)
• Third-Person pov - the narrator is outside of the story. (he, she, they, them)
• Definition - it explains what a term means
• Formal definition, Definition paragraph, Informal definition - types of definition
• Formal Definition - the definitions provided in dictionaries are example of formal definition
• term, class, differentiating features - elements of formal definition
• term - the word being defined
• class - the big group to which the term belongs
• differentianing features - the word/phrase that makes it different with the others from the same class
• Informal definition - the three common informal definitions are operational definitions, synonyms, and connotations
• Operational definitions - give the meaning of an abstract word for one particular time and place
• Synonyms - words that mean the same ass another word
• Denotation - the exact meaning of the word
• Connotation - is an idea or meaning suggested by or associated with a word or thing
• Definition Paragraph - definition sentence which is extended into a paragraph by adding meanings, descriptions, narrations and other kind of paragraph development to make clear the term being defined
• Cause - happens first, tells us Why
• Effect - happens after cause, tells us What happened
• To solve a problem, To predict an outcome, To understand a situation, To persuade - reasons for writing a cause and effect paragraph
• Brainstorming series of causes & effects for a topic youre writing about, noting them in an easy-to-understand way - organising a cause and effect paragraph
• Fishbone Diagram - a visualization of the causes of a problem
• Topic sentence - can be found in the first sentence in the first paragraph