figurative language
Giving a nonhuman human characteristics
What is personification?
What does RL and RI stand for?
Reading Literature and Reading Informational
where and when an event takes place in a short story
What is setting
It is what the passage or paragraph is about.
What is the main idea?
a struggle between a person or an outside force
What is external conflict
a direct comparison of two different things
What is metaphor
What are the 5 things needed to make a complete sentence?
1) Subject
2) Verb
3) Punctuation
4) Capital Letter
5) Has to make sense
the most intense or exciting high point of a short story
What is climax
The reason why an author writes.
What is Author's Purpose?
a sign or warning of whats going to happen next
What is foreshadowing
What is a prepositional phrase?
Shows time or location
the main events of a short story
What is plot
When you do not know the definition and you have to look around the word.
What is context clues?
visually descriptive or figurative language
What is imagery
Denotation and Connotation
the lesson or moral of a story
What is theme
The feeling the author wants the reader to get.
What is mood?
Using prior knowledge and what you read to determine what is happening.
What is inference?
Define noun, verb, adjective, and adverb
Person/place/thing, an action, word that describes a noun, and a word that describes a verb.
the perspective from which the story's told
What is point of view
The vocabulary an author uses to show how he or she feels about a topic.
What is tone?
A struggle within a character
Internal conflict