Literary Elements Vocabulary
- Fiction: a genre of writing that contains made up people and events.
- Setting: when and where a story takes place.
- Detail: a specific piece of information that helps you understand things contained in a story.
- Inference: an educated guess about a passage based on the author’s clues and the reader’s prior knowledge.
- Character: the people, animals, objects, or creatures in a story.
- Character Traits: anything that describes a character. This could describe their personality or physical traits.
- Motivation: the reason for the way a character acts.
- Protagonist: the “good guy” in a story.
- Antagonist: the “bad guy” in a story.
- Prose Writing: writing that is broken down into paragraphs and chapters.
- Noun: a person, place, or thing.
5th Grade Spelling Words
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