Term
Making a connection between your personal experiences and the text you are reading
Text to self connection
Text to Text connection
Mood
The feeling the reader gets from what they are reading.
Buzz
Onomatopoeia
Plankton
Antagonist
1st person point of view
The struggle between two opposing forces within a work
Conflict
Internal Conflict
Scooby Doo
Protagonist
A small wooden cabin, at night during a snowstorm
Setting
When a character is struggling physically with another character
Interpersonal conflict
Theme
The main message of a piece of writing
Climax
The highest point of tension in a work, the turning point before the plot is resolved.
Life is a rollercoaster
Metaphor
The sun smiled down on the girl.
Personification
The attitude an author has towards his writing.
Tone
Connecting Resisting Hitler to WW2
Text to world connection
3rd Person Limited
The narrator is not a character in the story. The narrator only presents the thoughts and feelings of one character.
Essays, dramas or short stories
Genre
Busy as a bee
Simile
When you give an animal, inanimate object or idea, human characteristics
Personification
Metaphor
Comparison between two unlike things without using "like" or "as"
Diction
Author's word choice.
Green grass grew on the sidewalks
Alliteration
A boy is stuck in a snow storm
External conflict