| A | B |
|---|
| plot | the story line |
| setting | time and place in a story |
| characterization | personality trait of characters |
| theme | central message of a work |
| style | writers way of writing |
| point of view | perspective from which the story is told (1st, 2nd, 3rd person) |
| symbolism | uses something to represent something else |
| foreshadowing | giving clues to suggest events that have yet to occur |
| mood and atmosphere | feeling created (in the reader) by a work |
| irony | contrast between what is stated and what is meant |
| satire | writing that ridicules or criticizes individuals, ideas, social convention |
| simile | making comparisons between two subjects using like or as |
| metaphor | one thing is spoken of as if it were something else |
| personification | a non-human subject is given human traits |
| alliteration | repetition of first sound (Peter Piper picked) - repeated at least two times |
| allusion | a reference to a well-known person, place, event, or literary work to make the writing stronger |
| inference | a guess of what can be |
| stanza | groups of lines in a poem - paragraphs, stanzas |
| rhyme scheme | the regular pattern of rhyming words in a poem |
| imagery | descriptive or figurative language used to create word pictures for the reader |
| flashback | a section in a literary work that interrupts the chronological order of events to relate an event from an earlier time. (goes back in time) |
| protagonist | the good main character |
| antagonist | the bad main character |
| round (dynamic) character | the character that changes (Scrooge) |
| flat (static) character | the character that does not change |
| radio waves | waves that carry info. on a radio station |
| microwaves | for communicaions and ovens |
| infrared waves | waves you feel as heat |
| ultraviolet waves | kills bacteria and causes sunburns |
| electromagnetic waves | vibrating electric charges, matter not present |
| magnetic field | exerts a force |
| radiant energy | enery carried by a electroagnetic wave |
| visable light | waves you can see |
| matter | anything that has volume and mass |
| volume | the smount of space that something occupies |
| gravity | a force of attraction between two objects |
| weight | a measure of the gravitational force excerted on an object usually by the earth |
| newton | the SI unit for force |
| inertia | resists change in motion |
| physical property | no change in the identity of matter |
| density | the matter in a given space |
| ductiity | draw or pulled in a wire |
| malleability | pounded into thin sheets |
| characteristic property | ability to dissolve in another substance |
| chemical property | a property of matter that describes a substance based on ability to change into a new substance |
| physical change | a change that affect one or more |
| meniscus | the surve at a liquid's surace by which you measure the volume of the liquid |
| microwaves | waves used for communications and ovens |
| radio waves | waves tat can carry info from a radio station |
| electromagnetic waves | vibrating electric charges; matter not present |
