Vocabulary Review
A brief statement of the main points of a text.
What is a summary?
A comparison using "like" or "as".
What is a simile?
A group of lines in a poem, like a paragraph.
What is a stanza?
The time and place where a story happens.
What is the setting?
The author's reason for writing the text.
What is the author's purpose?
A word that means the lesson or message of a story.
What is a theme?
"The flowers danced in the sun."
What is personification?
The beat or pattern of syllables in a poem?
What is rhythm?
The problem in the story.
What is a conflict?
These are used when quoting another person's example.
What are quotation marks?
This type of word has the same or similar meaning as another.
What is a synonym?
An extreme exaggeration for effect.
What is hyperbole?
The voice that "speaks" the poem.
What is a speaker?
A narrative always has these three things.
What is beginning, middle, and end?
The sources found at the end of an informational paper to prove your evidence trustworthy.
What is works cited?
A conclusion based on evidence and reasoning.
What is an inference?
A word that sounds like the noise it describes.
What is onomatopoeia?
This type of poem expresses feelings and emotions.
What is an ode?
When two people are talking or having a conversation.
What is dialogue?
A structure that explains why something happened and its results.
What is cause and effect?
To restate something in your own words.
What is a paraphrase?
"Her voice was music to his ears" is an example of this.
What is a metaphor?
A poem that contains 14 lines with no stanzas.
What is a sonnet?
The character who is the villain in the story.
What is the antagonist?
The way an author feels about a subject, shown through word choice.
What is tone?