Vocab
This is the main message or lesson of a story.
What is theme?
The people or animals in a story.
👉 What are characters?
A comparison using “like” or “as.”
👉 What is a simile?
Finding evidence directly from the text to support an answer.
👉 What is text evidence?
Why an author includes descriptive details.
👉 What is to help the reader visualize?
This is what the story is mostly about...
What is main idea?
Where and when a story takes place.
👉 What is setting?
A comparison that says something is something else.
👉 What is a metaphor?
Reading between the lines to understand something not directly stated.
(good guess)
👉 What is inferencing?
The author’s opinion or feeling about a topic.
👉 What is perspective?
Clues in the text + what you already know = this skill.
👉 What is inference?
The problem in the story.
👉 What is conflict?
Giving human traits to nonhuman things.
👉 What is personification?
Putting events in order from beginning to end.
👉 What is sequencing?
Words and phrases that appeal to the senses.
(paints a picture)
👉 What is imagery?
The sequence of events in a story.
👉 What is plot?
The most exciting part of the story where the problem reaches its peak.
👉 What is climax?
A character says, “My backpack weighs a ton!”
This is an example of what type of figurative language?
👉 What is hyperbole?
Telling the most important parts or a story in a shorter way.
👉 What is summarizing?
Repeating words or phrases for emphasis.
👉 What is repetition?
The feeling or atmosphere created by the author.
👉 What is mood?
When the problem is solved.
👉 What is resolution?
Repeating beginning sounds in words close together.
👉 What is alliteration?
Understanding why an author wrote a text.
👉 What is author’s purpose?
The lesson the author wants the reader to learn through the story.
👉 What is theme?