Comparing using like or as
Simile
Metaphor
Words with similar meaning
Synonym
Words with opposite meaning
Antonym
Letters added at the beginning of the of the word
Prefix
Letters added to the end of a word
Suffix
A story that is fake
Fiction
The feeling of the story
Mood
Extreme exaggeration
Hyperbole
Giving animals or objects human qualities
Personification
Set of lines in a poem
Stanza
The space between stanzas in a poem
Line break
The word is the sound it makes
Onomatopoeia
A story written to be performed by actors
Drama
Texts that provide facts and information about a topic (sports, animals, science, history, careers, travel, geography, space, weather, etc.)
Informational
The perspective of how the story is told
Point of View
A story that is true
Non-Fiction
Headings, subheadings, bold print, italics, pictures, charts, and maps.
Text Features
The moral of the story, or the lesson that was learned.
Theme
Give a brief statement of the main points of the story.
Summarize
Listing the important events from the story.
Plot
Where and when the story takes place
Setting
What a piece of writing is mainly about
Main Idea
Making an educated guess based on given facts.
Inference/Infer
The reason the author has for writing. ( Inform, persuade, express, & entertain)
Author's Purpose