Resource Material
Figurative
Language
Types of Literature
General Terms
While you Read
100
an alphabetical list of words with theri definitions (meanings)
What is a dictionary?
100
words that sound like the noise or action they describe
What is an onomatopoeia?
100
a made-up story; a story of imaginary events and characters; not real; a genre
What is fiction?
100
an important word that helps you to find out information
What is a key word?
100
the events that take place in a story/ what happens in a story
What is the plot?
200
a reference list at the back of the book ; an alphabetical list of words, names, and subjects , it includes the page number for each item
What is an index?
200

the repetition of sound in three or more words of a phrase, sentence, or line of poetry Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.

What is alliteration?

200
a story with greatly exaggerated, probably impossible , details
What is a tall tale?
200
a word with no prefix or suffix;
What is a stem, base word, or root word?
200
where and when a story takes place
What is the setting?
300
words found at the top of a dictionary page the first and last words on the page
What is guide words?
300
a comparison of two things using like or as He was as tall as a tree. The surface of the water was like glass.
What is a simile?
300
a simple story that teaches a lesson; frequently characters are animals that act like humans
What is a fable?
300
words or word parts attached to the end of a root, stem, or base word to make another word
What is a suffix?
300
text or words surrounding an unknown word that give a CLUE to its meaning
What is a context clue?
400
an alphabetical list of difficult, technical words and their definitions placed in the back of a book
What is a glossary?
400
a comparison of two seemingly unlike things The hug was a warm blanket on a cold Winter night. DOES NOT USE LIKE OR AS !
What is a metaphor
400
something you read that tells a story/ has a beginning, middle, and end
What is a narrative?
400
the goal or aim of an author to entertain, inform, or persuade the reader
What is author's purpose for writing?
400

making a narrative shorter; taking only the most important details or events and listing them

What is a summary?

500
a book, series of books, which contains articles on many subjects arranged in alphabetical order
What is an encyclopedia?
500

a sentence or phrase whose meaning cannot be understood the way the words are put together. You are pulling my leg. I laughed my head off!

What is an idiom?

500
lines written in meter or verse; a literary genre Most of the times every other line rhymes
What is poetry?
500
The opposite of a word - hot, cold words that have similar meanings- scared, afraid
What is antonym? What is synonym?
500
a way to compare two or more things/ how they are alike and how they are different
What is compare and contrast?
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