A book published ever year that contains detailed information on a special subject.
What is an Almanac?
Information in the form of a table, diagram, etc.
What is a Chart?
A combo of letters that represent a longer phrase.
What is an Acronym?
When you don't specifically say what you are thinking, but instead try to get people to to guess what you are thinking using obvious hints or clues.
What is an Allusion?
Repetition of vowel sounds in the middle of words.
What is an Assonance?
A list of books, magazines, articles, etc., that are mentioned in a text.
To figure out how things are different.
What is to Contrast?
A short story about an interesting or funny event in your life that you share with others.
What is an Anecdote?
When something makes something else (effect) happen.
What is a cause?
When the author writes as though you are one of the characters in the story.
What is the first person?
To arrange (people or things) into groups based on ways that they are alike.
What is to Classify?
A piece of writing that tells a story and is performed on a stage.
What is a Drama?
A nonfiction book written about a person by that person.
What is an Autobiography?
The arrangement of things put in order when they happened.
What is Chronological?
Words that sound the same, but are spelled differently and have different meanings.
An opinion or decision that is created after thinking about new information you learned.
What is a Conclusion?
The turning point of the story, when the main character usually solves the problem/Conflict. Often this is the most exciting part of the story.
What is the Climax?
A book in which you write down your personal experiences and thoughts each day.
What is a Diary?
The introduction of a fictional story, where you learn about the characters and the setting.
What is an Exposition?
Written works (such as poems, plays, and novels) that are considered to be very good and to have a lasting importance.
What is Literature?
This happens because something caused it to happen.
What is an Effect?
A puzzle where you have to figure out how two different things are similar.
What is an Analogy?
A published collection of writings (such as poems or short stories) by different authors.
What is an Anthology?
A section in a newspaper, magazine, internet that sells things like houses, apartments, used cars, and lists jobs.
What is the Classified Ad?
The act of saying something that is opposite or very different in meaning to something else.
What is to Contradict?