When the author compares or contrasts two or more people, ideas, or events.
What is compare and contrast.
100
The narrator is a character in the story and is telling the story about his or herself.
What is first person point of view?
100
The personality or qualities of a character. Shown through dialogue, actions, and thoughts.
What are character traits?
100
Using text clues and background knowledge to create new meaning from our reading.
What is inference?
100
A story that is set in the past and features real people, places, and events from history that have been somewhat fictionalized.
What is historical fiction?
200
When a problem is presented followed by a solution to the problem.
What is problem and solution?
200
The author makes the reader a character in the story by saying something like:
"You hear the squeak of a door down the hall, which is strange because you are alone in the house. Your heart starts to pound in your chest".
What is second person?
200
The conversation between characters. Evident to a reader through the use of quotation marks.
What is dialogue?
200
A story that usually begins with "once upon a time" and features themes of good and evil. Oh, and usually there's a prince or princess in the mix.
What is a fairy tale?
200
A story that has a clear moral and usually features talking animals.
What is a fable?
300
When events are given according to times and dates.
What is chronological order?
300
When the narrator is a character outside of the story and tells the story about one main character. The reader only gets to know the thoughts and feelings of that one main character.
What is third person limited?
300
To tell how two or more things are different.
What is contrast?
300
A story that includes made up places or creatures that could not exist in real life.
What is fantasy?
300
A story whose characters and events seems like people and events that could exist in real life.
What is realistic fiction?
400
When events are given in order and the author uses sequence words such as first, next, and then.
What is sequence?
400
When the narrator is outside of the story and is telling the story about more than one main character. The reader gets to hear and know the thoughts of many of the characters.
What is third person omniscient?
400
A story that was passed down from generation to generation by word of mouth, rather than having been printed or written down.
What is a folktale?
400
To retell a story in your own words.
What is a summary?
400
A story that explains how or why something happens, such as why we have night and day.
What is a myth?
500
When the author gives all the nitty gritty details and creates lots of images in your mind.
What is description?
500
The way the author/speaker feels about the subject or topic. The author's feelings are portrayed to the reader through word choice.
What is tone?
500
The person who is telling a story.
What is the narrator?
500
To tell how two or more things are similar.
What is comparison?
500
A story that features larger than life characters and huge exaggerations.