Literary Terms
The perspective from which a story is told (e.g., first-person, third-person).
Point of View (POV)
A direct comparison between two things without using "like" or "as."
Metaphor
Using words, phrases, and sentences around an unknown word to figure out its meaning.
Context Clues
A word that describes a verb, an adjective, or another adverb (often ending in -ly).
Adverb
Looking at a text to identify the who, what, when, where, and why.
Summary
The turning point or most intense, exciting moment in a story's plot.
Climax
Giving human qualities, emotions, or actions to non-human things or objects.
Personification
The feeling or emotion that a word creates (can be positive, negative, or neutral).
A word that describes or modifies a noun or pronoun.
Adjective
A logical conclusion based on evidence from the text and your own background knowledge.
Inference
A subtle hint or warning given by the author about something that will happen later in the story.
Foreshadowing
An extreme, obvious exaggeration used for emphasis or humor.
Hyperbole
Words that have the same or nearly the same meaning.
Synonyms
Action verbs or "to be" verbs (e.g., run, is, was, had) that express the main action or state of being.
Verb
Text that tells a made-up story from the author's imagination.
Fiction
The underlying message, lesson, or central idea of a story
Theme
A line or phrase in a poem that repeats the same consonant sound at the beginning of closely connected words.
Alliteration
Words that have opposite meanings.
Antonyms
Words that connect words, phrases, or clauses together (e.g., and, but, or, because).
Conjunction
Writing that is based on real facts, true events, and actual people.
Nonfiction
A character's struggles with an outside force like nature, another character, or society.
External Conflict
A sound word (like buzz, hiss, etc.)
Onomatopoeia
The root word in "autograph"
Graph
Identify the subject and verb in this sentence: The fluffy dog barked loudly
dog; barked (or fluffy dog)
The organizational pattern an author uses to write a text (e.g., cause and effect, sequence, or problem and solution).
Structure