Non-Fiction
What the text is mostly about
Central Idea
The people or animals in the story.
Characters
Stanza
Noise words (bang, crash, splash)
Onomatapoeia
The message you are supposed to learn from the story
Theme
How the story is arranged
Text Structure
The place where the story takes place.
The setting
A poem with three lines and a specific syllable pattern
Haiku
Comparing two things using like or as
Simile
Author's Claim
Putting the events in order
Chronological Order
What the character thinks about something
Perspective
How many syllables does each line have in an Haiku?
first line- 5, second line-7, third line- 5
Comparing two things without using like or as
Metaphor
A phrase that means something completely different (When pigs fly)
Idiom
Something happens that causes something else to happen
Cause & Effect
Giving only the most important information from a text.
Summarizing
Rhyming Verse
Giving a non-living thing human traits (the tree was dancing in the wind)
Personification
Free Verse
How something is the same and different
Comparison (Compare and Contrast)
Who is telling the story?
Point of View
A poem with 5 lines, the 1st, 2nd, and last word of these lines rhyme, along with the last word of the 3rd and 4th line.
Limerick
Hyperbole
What should you do if the question askes you what a word means in the passage?
GO BACK AND LOOK IN THE TEXT!