English Terms

2. The authors central message that makes a general statement about human beings or about life.
6. An affix attached at the beginning of a base word or root word that changes the meaning.
7. Language enriched by word images to sate ideas in vivid and imaginative ways.
8. An affix attached at the end of a base or root word that changes the meaning or its part of speech.
12. The careful sequencing of events in a story generally built around a conflict.
15. Books and other resources that help determine meaning,pronunciation,and origin of words.
18. Basic part of the word that carries the meaning.

1. The struggle between opposing forces that brings about the action within a story or drama;can be internal or external.
3. The organization of information to aid meaning;sidebars,bold faces,underlining, ETC.
4. A song like narrative poem usually featuring rhyme,rhythm,and refrain.
5. scheme A regular pattern of rhyming words at the ends of the lines in a poem.
9. A figure of speech which uses purposeful exaggeration.
10. The events that unfold according to how the main character responds to the conflict.
11. Figures of speech that use the words"like" or "as," or in some cases,"than" or "resembles," to compare two unlike things.
12. An organizational pattern in which a problem is presented and solved.
13. book of maps.
14. A meaningful word to which prefixes or suffixes are added.
16. the recurring pattern of strong and weak syllabic stresses;the beat of a line.
17. To look up facts and statistics.