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Stories with made-up characters, setting and plot.
What is FICTION?
The WHERE and WHEN a story takes place. Can include a country, a time period, and/or a specific location. Many stories contain multiple settings.
What is the SETTING?
A figure of speech that compares two unlike things using like or as.
What is a SIMILE?
A figure of speech that gives human qualities to nonhuman objects.
What is PERSONIFICATION?
A factual text that gives an account of the life of a real person. Often about well-known figures, such as politicians, social activists, artists, or athletes.
What is a BIOGRAPHY?
A conclusion that is made by a reader using evidence from a text combined with the reader's background knowledge.
What is an INFERENCE?
The key events that happen during the story; may include a conflict to be overcome.
What is the PLOT?
The perspective from which the story is written.
What is POINT OF VIEW?
Words and phrases in a text that help the reader determine the meanings of unknown words.
What are CONTEXT CLUES?
A work of prose fiction that is usually less than 40 pages in length which usually only covers only a few characters in a specific plot and takes place during a limited period of time.
What is a SHORT STORY?
The real-world life lesson that a story teaches the reader.
What is THEME?
The retelling of the main events in a text in a shorter version.
What is a SUMMARY?
When the narrator is one of the characters and the story is told from his/her/their viewpoint.
What is FIRST PERSON point of view?
The type of text that is composed of scenes and is written to be performed in from of an audience.
What is DRAMA?
A factual text that gives an account of the life or a real person who is writing about his/her own life.
What is an AUTOBIOGRAPHY?
It is who experiences the events of a story, often people, but also could be animals or objects with human characteristics.
What is a CHARACTER?
A figure of speech that compares two unlike things by directly stating that one is the other.
What is a METAPHOR?
When the narrator is NOT part of the story.
What is THIRD PERSON point of view?
What is POETRY?
A story that is passed down through the years and may not necessarily be true.
What is a LEGEND?
The problem or challenge in the story that must be overcome.
What is the CONFLICT?
The way that a conflict or problem is solved in a story.
What is a RESOLUTION?
A figure of speech that uses extreme exaggeration.
What is a HYPERBOLE?
A lengthy work of prose fiction that can cover a complex plot with any number of characters, events and settings.
What is a NOVEL?
The reason or intent the author had for writing a particular selection and reflects what the author wanted to express by writing the passage.
What is AUTHOR'S PURPOSE?