Literary Terms
Punctuation
Grammar
Odd Ball words
Parts of a story/ Point of view/ Types of writing
100
A comparison of two unlike things in which like or as is used.
Simile
100

A question sentence that ends with a question mark.

Example: Do you like chocolate milk?

Interrogative

100

A word that joins together sentences, clauses, phrases, or words.

Conjunction
100
When one event causes another to happen.

Example: I don't have my homework because my dog ate it. 

Cause and Effect
100
The action of the story.
Plot
200
An object given human qualities.

Example: The flowers danced about the lawn

Personification
200

The statement ends in a period.

Example: The sun rises in the morning. 

Declarative

200

Part of a sentence.

ex1: when the bell rings

ex2: ran across the street

Fragment
200
The author's intent to inform or teach someone, to entertain people, or to persuade or convince their audience. 
Author's purpose
200
Written at the time of the event by someone who was there.
Primary Source
300
A word or group of words which appeal to one or more of the senses: sight, taste, touch, hearing, smell; it paints a picture in the reader's mind.

Example: Margaret tried to focus on her work, but the intense chocolate aroma reached her nostrils distracting her. 

Imagery
300

A command sentence that ends in a period.

Example: Pass the salt.

Imperative

300

More than one complete thought without the use of a comma and conjunction to separate those complete thoughts.

Run-on sentence

300
Not presenting both sides of an issue fairly.
Bias
300
The gist of the text; the topic sentence of a paragraph. 
Main idea
400
The repetition of initial consonant sounds.
Alliteration
400

An exciting sentence that ends in an exclamation point.


Exclamatory

400

What are these words an example of when used in a sentence:

and, nor, but, or, so

Conjunction
400
The attitude of the author toward the audience and characters. 

Example: sarcastic, unhappy, humorous, optimistic

Tone
400
The narrator tells us about what is happening in the story by using the words he, she, him, her, they, or them. 
Third person
500
An implied or indirect reference in literature to a familiar person, place or event.

Example: "Get down from the fence, Billy!" the mother yelled at her child.  "Remember what happened to Humpty Dumpty?"

Allusion
500

What kind of sentence is this an example of:

It is snowing outside!

Exclamatory

500

What are the sentences below an example of:

ex1: I like to ear pizza I like to drink soda.


ex2: I like to eat pizza and I like to drink soda.


(correct): I like to eat pizza, and I like to drink soda. 

Run-on sentences
500

A group of letters placed at the beginning of the word to change its meaning.

Examples: prereading, disapprove, undo, reread, misunderstand

Prefix
500
An account of the event that was not witnessed by the writer. 
Secondary Source
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