Plot
One to two words that explain the subject being discussed.
What is topic?
When you compare to unlike things using the words like or as.
What is a simile?
Books that are about non real things, people, events, and places.
What is fiction?
Describes the writer's attitude.
What is tone?
Events that lead up to the resolution of a story.
What are falling action events?
The main point of a piece of writing.
What is central idea?
When you compare to unlike things without using the words like or as.
What is a metaphor?
Books that are about real things, people, events, and places.
What is nonfiction?
A struggle between to opposing forces.
What is conflict?
The beginning of the story, where the characters and setting are introduced.
What is exposition?
The message of the story.
What is a theme?
Exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literally.
What is hyperbole?
A genre in nonfiction which is a story of one's own life.
What is autobiography?
The effect of this sentence: The wasteful energy use of many Americans has contributed to global warming.
What is global warming?
The highest point of interest, the place where ideas are drawn together, an important turning point in a series of actions, or the most forceful event in a story.
What is climax?
Can be literal or inferred.
What is central idea?
Giving an object or an animal human traits.
What is personification?
Formed with lines and stanzas.
What is a poem?
Background Knowledge + Clues From Text
What is an inference?
Concludes the action and ensures that all important plot lines have been tied.
What is resolution?
Provides a critical, key, or fundamental information about the topic.
What is a detail?
The formation or use of words that imitate the sounds associated with the objects or actions they refer to.
What is onomatopoeia?
How the author reveals the personality of a character.
What is characterization?