Terms I Should Know
The punctuation used to indicate speech in a text.
What are quotation marks?
Sofia is being bullied at school by Emma.
What is man vs. man.
A genre in nonfiction which is a story of one's own life.
What is autobiography.
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.
When you compare two unlike things using the words like or as.
What is simile.
a repetition of a rhyming pattern
What is rhyme scheme?
The implied moral or message of a story
What is theme?
Concludes the action and ensures that all important plot lines have been tied.
What is resolution.
The formation or use of words that imitate the sounds associated with the objects or actions they refer to.
What is onomatopoeia.
The central point of a piece of writing.
What is main idea.
Books that are about real things, people, events, and places.
What is nonfiction.
When an author intensionally makes a reference to another work, such as another piece of literature, a piece of artwork, or a time, place or person
What is allusion?
The sentence that states the main idea of a writing assignment and helps control the ideas within the paper.
What is a thesis statement
Jack must survive a cold winter in the wilderness.
What is man vs. nature
An essential trait of a biography that helps the reader understand the subject in context to the historical time period and place he or she was born in.
What is setting?
Tells us when a character is talking and identifies which character is talking.
What is dialogue tag.
A fact, a statement, a quote, or event, that backs up a key idea.
What is a supporting detail?
An idea or feeling that a word invokes in addition to its literal or primary meaning.
What is connotation?
Giving an object or an animal human traits.
What is personification.