Text Features
Shows where places/events are located.
Map
Words written in verse to convey thoughts, emotions, experiences, and ideas.
Poetry
What is a contrast between what is expected and what actually happens?
Irony
The way author's let readers see and hear what is going on in a story.
Point of View
Giving something that isn't human humanlike characteristics.
Personification
My brother is as good as gold.
Simile
Tells about a problem and how it is solved.
Problem & Solution
People, animals, or objects in a story.
Characters
What is the literal or dictionary definition of a word?
Denotation
The main focus of text.
Central Idea
Questions asked to emphasize a point or provoke thought.
Rhetorical Questions
Shows what something looks like. Taken with a camera.
Photograph
A row of words in poetry.
Line
When the reader knows something that the characters don't know.
Dramatic Irony
Use narrators who are not characters in the story.
Pronouns like... she, he, they, his, hers, them, and theirs
Third Person Point of View
A form of comparison in which one thing is compared to another unlike thing by using the words "like" or "as".
Simile
My bed was calling me.
Personification
Describes how things are similar and different.
Compare & Contrast
The time and location where the story takes place.
Setting
What refers to the emotional or cultural associations of a word?
Connotation
Facts, statements, and examples that clarify, explain, and describe the central idea.
Supporting Details
Ethics
Establishing personal credentials
Getting your audience to trust you
Ethos
Shows what something looks like. Drawn by an artist.
Illustration
The repetition of sounds at the end of words.
Rhyme
When something happens that we wouldn't expect to happen.
Situational Irony
The story is told by the narrator. The narrator is a character in the story.
Pronouns... I, us, mine, we, my, and our
First Person Point of View
A form of comparison that directly compares two unlike things with the same quality.
Metaphor
My backpack weighs a ton.
Hyperbole
Shows what happened and why it happened.
Cause & Effect
What the author wants you to know or learn.
A broad idea about life.
The life lesson, meaning, moral, or message about life or human nature that is communicated by literary work.
Theme
How you, the audience, feels when reading or viewing the author's work.
Mood
When you are asked to read between the lines to determine meaning.
Infer
Logic
Arguing based on reason and facts
Getting your audience to think
Logos
Explains what a photograph or illustration is about.
Caption
The separation of lines in poetry, like paragraphs in a story.
Stanza
What is said is different from what is meant.
Verbal Irony
The point of view is the reader himself.
Typically used in informational text to give directions.
Pronouns... you and yours
Second Person Point of View
The repetition of usually initial consonant sounds in two or more neighboring words or syllables.
Alliteration
Her hair is silk.
My baby sister is a doll.
Metaphor
Shows events in time order.
Chronological Order
The problem in the story.
Conflict
The author's attitude or feeling about the subject that he/she writes about.
Tone
Breaking something down into its parts and closely inspecting each of the elements.
Analyze
Pity
Inspiring an emotional response
Getting your audience to feel
Pathos
Organizes and helps compare information in a visual way.
Graph
Sounds, words, phrases, or lines that are repeated for emphasis or unity.
Repetition
Example
Home Alone
We know Kevin has planted traps everywhere, but the thieves don't.
Dramatic Irony
This narrator tells the story from the perspective of one character.
The reader can find out what one person thinks or feels.
Third Person Limited Point of View
An expression that holds a different meaning than its literal meaning.
The language peculiar to a group of people.
A word or phrase that isn't meant to be taken literally.
Idiom
Break a leg.
I'm calling it a night.
She sings a the top of her lungs.
Let the cat out of the bag.
Idiom
Provides steps in a procedure.
Sequence
The organized pattern or sequence of events that make up a story.
Plot
Descriptive words that appeal to the five senses to create pictures in the reader's minds.
Sensory Details
When you make an idea, situation, or problem clear by describing it in detail with relevant facts and information.
Explain
Example:
Scientific research and legal arguments.
Logos
Identifies the topic of text. Tells what the text will be about.
Title
The pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in poetry.
Meter
Example
You tell someone to break a leg, but you mean for them to have good luck.
Verbal Irony
This narrator can see into the minds of all characters and can report what they are thinking and feeling.
"All-knowing"
Third Person Omniscient
A big exaggeration, usually with humor.
Hyperbole
She sells seashells by the seashore.
The wild and wooly walrus waits and wonders when we'll walk by.
Alliteration
Provides details or characteristic of a topic. Paints a mental picture.
Description
The turning point in the story.
Usually the most exciting or surprising part in the story.
Climax
A brief comment made on stage to the audience, so that the other characters cannot hear.
Aside
When you provide a judgement on the value, importance, or effectiveness of something.
Evaluate
Example:
A person being inclined to believe a medical professional on issues related to health.
Ethos
Added information related to the topic, usually located on the side of the page.
Sidebar
What is the rhyming scheme?
True friends are by your side
Through it all.
True friends are there
To catch you when you fall.
A
B
C
B
Example
The fire station burns to the ground.
Situational Irony
This narrator presents just the facts.
He can only tell you what he has seen or heard.
Third Person Objective Point of View
Naming a thing or action by imitating the sound associated with it.
Onomatopoeia
No pain, no gain.
What goes around, comes around.
Absence makes the heart grow fonder.
Cliche
Giving the reader hints about what's to come.
Foreshadowing
A short, interesting or amusing story about a real incident or person.
Anecdote
When a single word governs or modifies two or more words in different ways to create surprise and humor.
Example:
He lost his coat and his temper.
Zeugma
Example:
Advertising and art
Pathos
A number in the text referring to a source or additional information at the page's bottom.
Footnotes
How many syllables does each line have?
Thoughts they come and go
Like butterflies that flutter
Watch them carefully
5
7
5
A word or phrase that has become overly familiar or commonplace.
Cliche
buzz
hiss
roar
woof
Onomatopoeia
The attempt in literature and art to represent life as it really is, without sentimentalizing or idealizing it.
Realism