Literary Vocabulary
a person, being, or an animal in a story
What is a character
A phrase that compares 2 things using the words like or as.
What is a simile?
I went home because I was sick.
What is the Point of View of this sentence?
What is first person
Text structure where you find out how things are alike and different.
What is compare and contrast
a smaller title under the main title that tells what the text is about
What is a sub heading
Information that is true and can be proven
What is a fact?
a single row of words in a poem
What is a line?
Quotation marks are used to show when someone is talking.
What is dialogue?
Text structure where there is something wrong and a way to fix it.
Wha?t is problem/solution
the big idea or message in a story
What is theme?
the central idea or message of a story
What is a theme?
Words that mean something different than their normal meaning?
example: similie
What is he figurative language ?
When you answer a question using clues, and what you already know?
What is inferring?
Text structure where an author tells in great detail what something or someone is like
What is description
the the text is mostly about
What is main idea?
the part of the story where things start to get exciting
What is the rising action?
a phrase that describes something by comparing it to some other thing,
Example: The earth is a big blue marble
What is a metaphor
When the problem or conflict is worked out.
What is a resolution?
The text structure that describes something that happens and why it happens.
What is cause and effect?
facts, examples, or details that prove something is true
What is evidence?
instructions in a play that tells the actors what to do or where to go
What are stage directions?
The following sentence an example of what type of figurative language?
Her smile is as bright as the sun.
What is a simile?
a problem or struggle between opposing forces
What is conflict?
Text structure where time or date order is featured
What is chronological/ or sequence?
The S in RACES stands for....
What is sum it up?