Fiction
The lesson learned in the story. Sometimes called the moral of the story.
What is theme?
What the story is mostly about.
What is the main idea?
Stores that are made up for entertainment.
What is fiction?
Words that describe sight, sound, taste, touch and hearing.
What is sensory language?
The section of a poem that is equal to a paragraph.
What is a stanza?
The parts of a story which includes exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, and plot.
What is plot?
Information that proves the main idea to be true?
What are supporting details?
Stories that are based on knowledge the author has at the time it is written.
What is non-fiction?
When we are given just a piece of a larger story.
What is an excerpt?
The bouncing quality rhyming gives to a poem.
What is rhythm?
Time and place events in a story occur.
What is setting?
a personal belief, view or judgement
What is opinion?
Fictional stories set in a futuristic world of robots, computers and space travel.
What is science fiction?
the sum total of his knowledge which the reader brings to his reading experience
What is background knowledge?
When words or lines are said again and again to draw attention to an idea or concept in a poem.
What is repetition?
Conversation between two or more characters.
What is dialogue?
a piece of information that can be proven to exist or happen according to the author of the text.
What is a fact?
Stories that have fictional characters and have actual historical settings.
What is historical fiction?
Telling who, what, when, where and why about a story
What is a summary?
Word position, capital letters, line length
What are graphical elements?
a conclusion reached on the basis of evidence and reasoning.
What is inference?
the pattern an author uses as he or she organizes his or her ideas. Examples are cause and effect, problem and solution, descriptive and more.
What is text structure?
Stories that are true (non-fiction) that use literary styles (like fiction).
What is literary non-fiction?
1st person, 2nd person, 3rd person, 3rd person omniscient
What is point of view?
Using the same consonant sound at the beginning of each word in a line or group of lines (Sally sells seashells at the seashore)
What is alliteration?