The point of view told by someone in the story.
1st person ; first person
One group of words in a poem, a group of them forms a stanza
What is a line?
Author's use this to let the reader know what the main idea of the paragraph will be.
What is topic sentence?
Something that affects a person negatively and needs a solution in order to be fixed.
Ways to describe a character based on their description and their actions.
Character Traits
Tha author's purpose of an advertisement about the best features of an ipad that includes words like "you should" and "best".
What is to persuade?
Words in a passage that prove your answer; proof of something
A word that means the same or almost the same as another word in the same language.
What is a synonym?
An author's message or lesson
What is a theme?
True or False. Poetry cannot tell a story.
What is false?
Sometimes authors use graphs, charts, webs, or diagraphs to give the reader additional information or to help them understand something better. What are these called?
What are graphics/ graphic organizers?
Something that is objectively true.
What is a fact?
The time and place of a story; its location.
Setting
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What is BOLDED words? Or Italicized words
A comparison between two things that uses the words "like" or "as" .
Another word for the main character in a story; the person the story follows around
What is the protagonist?
The author's purpose of a newspaper article about the dangers of playing video games all day is _______________.
What is to inform?
Poetry uses this to be more interesting and to create more vivid descriptions.
Figurative language
Underneath a heading you may find a _____.
Sub-heading
The word for looking at two different things or categories and describing the ways in which they are different.
Contrasting