Content Vocabulary
This is when/where the story takes place.
The setting
In a poem, who is the speaker?
The person who is telling the events--their point of view.
What genre is a story that is written about a person's life and written by somebody else?
Biography
The message, lesson, or moral that the author wants you to take away from the story.
Theme
Words that have the same or similar meaning are called?
Synonyms
What does audience mean?
Who the selection is written for.
Uses the senses to describe a topic to create an 'image'-to visualize.
Imagery
What genre has a cast of characters, dialogue, a script, and is meant to be performed?
If an author's writing persuades, informs, or entertains that is called?
Author's purpose
What does the prefix un- mean?
Not
The series of events in a story from beginning to end.
The plot.
A group of lines in a poem, similar to a paragraph.
What is a stanza?
What is it called with you create an image in your mind as you read?
Visualize/Envision
Give 3 examples of text features
Bold print/vocabulary terms, glossary, pictures, captions, headings, graphs/tables/diagrams, bullet points, etc.
What does the suffix -less mean?
ex: motionless
Without
Without motion---still
What is the resolution?
The end of a story. How the story was solved.
What is this sentence an example of?
Billy baked brownies for Becky.
Alliteration
What does characterization mean?
Describing a character using traits.
This is what the story is mostly about?
Main Idea or central idea
What are the words hour and our called?
Homophones
What does the author's claim mean?
What the author's opinion is.
Rhyme scheme is a pattern that creates what in poems?
Rhythm
To draw conclusions by using text evidence and schema.
Inference
Compare and Contrast
Sequence of Events
Problem and Resolution
Description
Cause and Effect
These are a few examples of?
Text Structure
Which word does NOT correctly use the prefix dis-?
disrespect
dishonest
distrust
disuse