1. Neuroscience: the study of the nervous system and the effect it has on learning and behavior

2. Short Story: a narrative, shorter than a novel, that deals with a few characters and focuses more on creation of mood rather than plot

3. Science Fiction: fiction with scientific and
futuristic technologies

4. Perception: a mental image; awareness of things around you

5. Perspective: the state of one's ideas, affects one’s point of view
Perspective: the state of one's ideas, affects one’s point of view. “You have to live here a few years to see local conditions in perspective.”

6.  Psychology: the science of the mind or of mental states and processes.

7. Ethics (Medical): a system of moral principles dealing with medicinal practices

8. Regression: the act of going back to a previous place or state

9. Introspective: the art or the process of looking into oneself

10. Amnesia: loss of a large block of interrelated memories

11. Senility: the weakness or mental infirmity of old age.

12. Lobotomy: the operation of cutting into a lobe, as of the brain or the lung.

13. First person
The narrator is a part of the story, explaining the events from his/her own view.
He/she also uses the first person pronouns like I, me, my, and we.
“I looked round and I saw a hideous painted and powdered witch’s face starring down at me, and the face opened its mouth and yelled triumphantly, “It’s here! It’s behind the screen! Come and get it!” The witch reached out a gloved hand and grabbed me by the hair but I twisted free and jumped away.” The Witches by Roald Dahl

14. Second Person
Narrator addresses the reader as if he or she is a part of the story.
He/she uses the pronoun you.
“Go throw your TV set away, / And in its place you can install / A lovely bookshelf on the wall.Then fill the shelves with lots of books, / Ignoring all the dirty looks, The screams and yells, the bites and kicks, / And children hitting you with sticks-” Television by Roald Dahl

15. Third Person The narrator is detached from the story.
They only report the events occurring, and the reader must discover the meaning.
He/she uses third person pronouns like he, she, and they.
“Until he was four years old, James Henry Trotter had had a happy life. He lived peacefully with his mother and father in a beautiful house beside the sea. There were always plenty of other children for him to play with, and there was a sandy beach for him to run about on.” James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl

16. Omniscient
For this point of view the narrator still uses pronouns he, she, and they but they are outside of the story.
The narrator knows what each character thinks and feels.
He/she is all knowing.
Can you think of movie or television show examples?

17. Theme
The subject of a talk, piece of writing, a person’s thoughts, or an exhibition; a topic.
The moral or lesson of the story.
This could be a theme for language arts!

18. Vocabulary Roots Intro/intra – within Inter – Spec – Psyche – Logy –
Re –
Neuro –
Gress –
Tomy –
Omni –
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