ACAP Vocabulary 2

Actual Meaning of a word

• Plot

• Literal

• Objective Summary

• Connotative Meaning

The specific order of a series of events from a story.

• Rising Action

• Falling Action

• Plot

• Resolution

It captures the main points but does not give every detail and does not include opinions.

• Literal

• Plot

• Genre

• Objective Summary

Refers to the way an author develops a character over the course of a text.

• Metaphor

• Objective Summary

• Characterization

• Genre

Hyperbole

• Describes an object with human characteristics

• figure of speech making an exaggeration beyond belief

• Words give a direct comparison

• category of a text

A category of text

• Characterization

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Genre

Gives something human like qualities

• Personification

• Metaphor

• Stanza

• Falling Action

The meaning beyond the explicit meaning of a word. It is inferred from certain words.

• Objective Summary

• Characterization

• Plot

• Climax

Develops the problem or conflict of a story

• Rising Action

• Climax

• Conflict

• Falling Action

Turning point of a story

• Falling Action

• Plot

• Climax

• Exposition