Words
What is an antonym?
Words that are opposites
What is a hyperbole?
An exaggeration that makes a sentence more interesting.
What is a narrator?
The person or voice telling the story. Can be a character in the story or a voice outside the action.
What is a biography?
A story about someone's life written by someone who is not that person.
What is a synonym?
Words that mean the same thing.
What is personification?
When you give something not alive human traits.
What is authors purpose?
The reason that the author wrote the text.
Three of the most common reasons are to:
Persuade
Inform
Entertain
What is an autobiography?
A story about someone's life written by that actual person.
What is a verb?
An action word.
Ex: Ran, Jump, Dance
What is irony?
When the unexpected happens.
What is dialogue?
Conversation between two or more people.
The words that the characters in a story say out loud.
What is a genre?
A specific type of writing.
What is a noun?
A person, place, thing, or animal.
What is alliteration?
Alliteration is when every word in the sentence starts with the same sound.
Allie ate apples and apricots.
What is an inference?
Evidence from the text + Background Knowledge
Making an educated guess by reading in between the lines.
What is the difference between theme and main idea?
Main Idea - What this specific story is mostly about.
Theme - The lesson or moral that can be learned from the story.
What is an onomatopoeia?
A word that makes a sound.
Ex: Bang! Zip! Crash!
What is the difference between a simile or a metaphor?
Simile - Uses like or as.
Metaphor - Does not use like or as. Just is.
What is point of view?
The perspective from which the story is told.
Name four literary elements.
Character, Plot, Theme, Setting