Vocabulary
What is a genre that builds real history with imagined details?
Historical Fiction
A statement that forms the main point of an essay or debate that is supported by evidence.
Claim
A section of time with a set beginning and end.
Time Period
Compares two different things using the words “like” or “as”.
Simile
The same letter sound is repeated throughout a sentence.
Alliteration
The time and/or place in which the story is taking place.
Setting
A piece of information or fact about something.
Detail
A part of something bigger.
Element
An extreme exaggeration.
Hyperbole
Compare two different things without using the words “like” or “as”.
Metaphor
The shared way of life for a group of people, including their common beliefs, values customs, language, food, art, and behaviors, passed down through generations.
Culture
When you give reasons and proof (like facts or examples) to show why an idea is right.
Argument
Text that requires the reader to infer the meaning from clues. (Ex “The dog wagged its tail and barked joyfully” - You can infer the dog is happy.)
Indirect Evidence
A word that represents a sound.
Onomatopoeia
Giving human characteristics to nonhuman objects.
Personification
To cause something to grow or change into a more advanced, larger, or stronger form.
Develop
A problem, struggle or clash between opposing forces. There are two types, internal and external.
Conflict
When a text explicitly states something. (Ex: “The dog was happy.” It directly states the dog is happy.)
Direct Evidence
Using very descriptive language.
Imagery
A person who writes poems.
Poet
The capacity to have an effect on the character, development, or behavior of something or the effect itself.
Influence
To show something or uncover
Reveal
Something a good reader does to take something they already know to help them understand something new.
Making Connections
An expression where the words used, mean something different than you would find in the dictionary.
Idiom
A genre that blends real history with imagined details.
Historical Fiction