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A special kind of educated guess or opinion based on facts.
What is an inference?
The person telling the story.
What is the narrator?
The dictionary definition of a word.
What is denotation?
A comparison between two unlike things using like or as.
What is a simile?
A particular attitude or way of considering a matter.
What is point of view?
The moral message or lesson a story teaches.
A problem in the story.
What is conflict?
The feelings associated with a word.
What is connotation?
A common figure of speech that makes a comparison by directly relating one thing to another.
What is a metaphor?
Language that appeals to the senses. Often creates a mental picture in the reader's mind.
What is imagery?
Look for this instead of theme when you are reading an informational text.
What is central idea?
Series of events in the story. Includes the exposition, rising action, climax, falling action and resolution.
What is plot?
The author’s attitude toward a subject.
What is tone?
Giving human qualities or abilities to animals or objects.
What is personification?
When an author makes a reference to a well known person, place, book, movie, etc.
What is an allusion?
A text that explains why an author's position on an issue is valid
What is an argument?
The two types of conflict.
What are internal and external?
The overall feeling, or atmosphere, of a text; the feelings of the reader
What is mood?
Words that include sounds that are similar to the noises the words refer to.
What is onomatopoeia?
Conversation in a text.
What is dialogue?
What an author uses to support an argument.
What is evidence?
A character who undergoes a major change during the story (example: Ebenezer Scrooge)
What is a dynamic character?
The type of irony in which someone says the opposite of what they mean.
What is verbal irony or sarcasm?
Extreme exaggeration for effect.
What is hyperbole?
What does the acronym BAVE stand for?
What is beliefs, attitudes, values, and experiences?