Plot
The following is an example of what type of conflict?
Will couldn't decide what he was going to do. Go to the police or keep what he witnessed a secret.
What is internal conflict?
A true story filled with facts
Non-fiction
a set of letters that comes before the root word
What is a prefix?
the feeling you have when reading a passage
Mood
A made up story.
Ficiton
This is referring to who is telling the story (First person vs. Third person)
Point of view
This is when non-human characteristics are given human characteristics "The tree cried when the rain hit its branches."
What is personification?
Descriptive adjectives about a character's personality
Character Traits
Creating mental pictures to better understand the story or information.
Visualizing
This is what you are doing when you are finding similarities and differences between characters or stories.
Compare and Contrast
Retelling the story in a few sentences.
Summarizing
Identifying the primary point or central message the author is communicating
Theme or Main message
This is what you are doing when you are identifying why something happened and what happened as a result. Example: I planted seeds, it rained, it produced a plant.
Cause and Effect
Character that is the source of the conflict in the story.
What is antagonist?
This is the part of the plot where they introduce the characters, setting, and conflict.
What is the exposition?
Drawing conclusions based on evidence and reasoning
What is inference?
Genre
struggle betwen two or more opposing forces
What is conflict?
This when a writer returns to an earlier time in a story; it helps make the story clearer
Example: "As the teacher yelled, all he could remember was how his dad used to yell at him when before he disappeared."
What is a flashback?