Term
Surprise
Definition
Example 1
Example 2
100

Making a connection between your personal experiences and the text you are reading 

Text to self connection

100

Text to Text connection

Making a connection between the text you are reading and another text, movie, poem, etc you have read before. 
100

Mood

The feeling the reader gets from what they are reading.

100

Buzz

Onomatopoeia

100

Plankton

Antagonist 

200
When the character from within the story is also the narrator. Words like "I" or "Me" are used. 

1st person point of view

200

The struggle between two opposing forces within a work

Conflict

200

Internal Conflict

Character vs. Self (struggles with their own feelings).
200

Scooby Doo

Protagonist

200

A small wooden cabin, at night during a snowstorm 

Setting

300

When a character is struggling physically with another character

Interpersonal conflict

300

Theme

The main message of a piece of writing

300

Climax

The highest point of tension in a work, the turning point before the plot is resolved. 

300

Life is a rollercoaster

Metaphor

300

The sun smiled down on the girl. 

Personification

400

The attitude an author has towards his writing. 

Tone

400

Connecting Resisting Hitler to WW2

Text to world connection

400

3rd Person Limited 

The narrator is not a character in the story. The narrator only presents the thoughts and feelings of one character.

400

Essays, dramas or short stories 

Genre

400

Busy as a bee

Simile

500

When you give an animal, inanimate object or idea, human characteristics 

Personification

500

Metaphor

Comparison between two unlike things without using "like" or "as"

500

Diction

Author's word choice. 

500

Green grass grew on the sidewalks

Alliteration

500

A boy is stuck in a snow storm

External conflict

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