figurative language
misc.
elements of a short story
Vocabulary
random
100

Giving a nonhuman human characteristics

What is personification?

100

What does RL and RI stand for?

Reading Literature and Reading Informational

100

where and when an event takes place in a short story

What is setting

100

It is what the passage or paragraph is about.

What is the main idea?

100

a struggle between a person or an outside force

What is external conflict

200

a direct comparison of two different things

What is metaphor

200

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

200

the most intense or exciting high point of a short story

What is climax

200

The reason why an author writes.

What is Author's Purpose?

200

a sign or warning of whats going to happen next

What is foreshadowing

300
extreme exaggeration
What is hyperbole
300

What is a prepositional phrase?

Shows time or location

300

the main events of a short story

What is plot

300

When you do not know the definition and you have to look around the word.

What is context clues?

300

visually descriptive or figurative language

What is imagery

400
the use of words that sound like what they mean, such as "hiss," "buzz," "slam," and "boom"
What is onomatopoeia
400
the words that mean the dictionary definition of the word AND the word that means how a word makes you feel

Denotation and Connotation

400

the lesson or moral of a story

What is theme

400

The feeling the author wants the reader to get.

What is mood?

400

Using prior knowledge and what you read to determine what is happening.

What is inference?

500
the repeated use of the same constant at the beginning of words
What is alliteration
500

Define noun, verb, adjective, and adverb

Person/place/thing, an action, word that describes a noun, and a word that describes a verb.

500

the perspective from which the story's told

What is point of view

500

The vocabulary an author uses to show how he or she feels about a topic.

What is tone?

500

A struggle within a character

Internal conflict

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