Literary
A person, animal or thing in a work of literature. Example: August in Wonder
What is a character
What the text is mostly about.
What is the main idea?
Has a cast of characters, acts, and scenes.
What is a drama?
What is simile?
The lesson or message of a story. Example: Believe in yourself.
What is a theme?
When you draw a conclusion by putting together details from the text and what you know.
What is an inference?
A genre of literature that expresses feelings, ideas, or tells a story. Written in lines and stanzas.
What is poetry?
Uses exaggeration.
What is hyperbole?
what is the setting?
A account of events described by someone who what actually there when the event happened.
What is a firsthand account?
The voice of a poem.
What is metaphor.
The events of the story. Contains the exposition, conflict, rising action, climax, falling action, and resolution.
What is the plot?
When an author tells you something directly.
What is explicit?
The emotional feeling a poem creates for the reader.
What is mood or tone?
Gives human characteristics to things that are not human.
What is personification?
When you give the main events of a story in the order that they happened. This is typically about 3-4 sentences.
What is a summary?
Facts that support the main or central idea of a text.
What are key details?
The person that writes a poem.
What is a poet?
Repeats the beginning sound of words.
What is alliteration?