Literature
The lesson or moral of a story
Theme
The main focus of an informational text. What the text is about.
Main idea
When an author gives objects or things human characteristics and feeings.
Personification
The use of words or sentences around a word to find its meaning.
My friends and I adore it when the fair strolls into our town, despite the fact that our parents hate it when it comes.
Personification
When and where a story takes place
Setting
A retelling of the most important parts of an article
Summary
Repetition of consonant sounds amongst words in a sentence
Alliteration
A group of lines that make up a paragraph in a poem.
Stanza
I should have been more empathetic, but Jill is normally as quiet as a church mouse, so I couldn't help by laugh seeing her eyes as bing as saucers.
Simile
The events within a story
Story Plot
A non-fiction selection usually found in a newspaper or magazine
Article
A group of words that cannot be taken literally.
Idiom
A definition of a word based on society's standards.
Connotation
We went on a few more rides, and then we decided to go on the Ferris Wheel together. Being up so high gave us an amazing view of the bustling arm farm of people below.
Metaphor
Flashback
Information that is clearly expressed and stated within a text.
Explicit
A group of self-contradicting words.
Oxymoron
Difference between what is expected and what really happens.
Irony
Last year, my sister chose to go on The Spin-Booster right away with her friend Jill who couldn't contain her shrieks. I kept hearing her squeals of excitement.
Onomatopoeia
A story that is made up or not true
Fiction; literature
A text or selection that is true or factual
Informational text; non-fiction
A reference to an idea, location, person, or story.
Allusion
The opposite meaning of what is said.
Verbal irony
Thankfully it didn't seem to last long. Fairs are the only place I can think of where people go to torture themselves and call it bliss.
Oxymoron