Category 1
The message or lesson that the story is teaching you
theme
finding the meaning of unfamiliar words but using other words in the surrounding text to help you
context clues
Where the story takes place
setting
a comparison of two unlike things using like or as
metaphor
writing that is a made up story
fiction
What the story or particular paragraph is mostly about
main idea
One word used to describe someone
character trait
a brief statement of the events of the story, has a beginning, middle, and end
summary
writing that is true
non fiction
similar to a paragraph but in a poem
stanza
finding a solution to a problem
resolution
comparison using like or as
simile
a conversation between two people
dialogue
how the narrator thinks or feels in a story
narrators point of view
to draw a reasonable conclusion from the information presented in a story
inference
combining several pieces of information
conclusion
an expression that has a different meaning than the literal meaning of the phrase or expression
idiom
the person who is telling the story
narrator