Literary Structure
The person or animal the story is mostly about.
Who or what is a character?
A comparison using the words "like" or "as."
What is a simile?
A brief retelling or restatement of an article or story's without providing personal feelings or opinions.
What is a Summary?
The reader of a text.
What is audience?
The time and the place where a story happens.
What is the setting?
Giving human qualities to an animal or object.
What is personification?
The perspective from which a story is narrated.
What is Point of view?
Stealing someone else's words and saying they are yours.
What is a plagiarism?
The main problem that a character has to solve.
What is conflict?
A huge exaggeration, like "I'm so hungry I could eat a horse!"
The words spoken by characters in a story.
What is dialogue?
To explain the same message using different words.
What is paraphrase?
The most exciting part or "turning point" of a story.
What is the climax?
A comparison that does NOT use "like" or "as."
What is a Metaphor?
Using clues in the sentence to find a word's meaning.
What are Context Clues?
A group of two of more lines that form a unit poem
What is a stanza?
The message or "big lesson" the author wants you to learn.
What is the theme?
Words that sound like what they mean, like Boom or Sizzle.
What is onomatopoeia?
To use what you know and text clues to make a "smart guess."
What is an Inference?
When a writer provides hints that suggest future events in the story creating suspense
What is foreshadowing?
The part of the story draws to a close and tension eases.
What is Falling action?
the repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words
What is alliteration
The feeling a word gives you (e.g., "home" feels warm).
What is connotation?
Information provided to guide an actor or director in the script of a play/drama.
What are stage directions?
What the text is mostly about.
What is central idea?
An expression that has a meaning different from the meaning of the individual words.
What is an idiom?
The person telling the story.
Who is the narrator?
All forms of writing that written in paragraphs and are not poetry.
What is prose?