STAAR Grade 7 Reading: Literature, List 1

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  1. character
    an imaginary person represented in a work of fiction
  2. conflict
    opposition in a work of fiction between characters or forces
  3. development
    a process in which something passes to a different stage
  4. fantasy
    fiction with a large amount of imagination in it
  5. first person
    narration from the point of view of the speaker or narrator
  6. historical
    belonging to the past
  7. mystery
    a story about a crime presented as a novel or play or movie
  8. myth
    a traditional story serving to explain a world view
  9. narrator
    someone who tells a story
  10. objective
    undistorted by emotion or personal bias
  11. plot
    the story that is told, as in a novel, play, movie, etc.
  12. point of view
    the perspective from which a story is told
  13. realistic
    representing what is; not abstract or ideal
  14. resolution
    the way the main complication of a literary work is settled
  15. science fiction
    genre involving the imagined impact of technology on society
  16. setting
    the context and environment in which something is situated
  17. subjective
    taking place within the mind and modified by individual bias
  18. theme
    a unifying idea that is a recurrent element in literary work
  19. third person
    narration from the point of view of those being described
  20. tone
    a quality that reveals the attitudes of the author
Created on Thu Aug 26 14:58:02 EDT 2021 (updated Thu Aug 26 15:13:07 EDT 2021)

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