Figurative Language
Simile
What tense includes: will + have + verb
Future Perfect Tense
The most important point of the message the author wants to share. This is what the passage/story/articleis mostly about.
Main Idea
Provides a first-hand account of an event or time period.
Primary Source
When you give an animal or object humanlike qualities or abilities.
Personification
This type of verb has a completely different form in the past tense; you can't simply add 'ed'.
Irregular Verb
Important pieces of information that support the main idea of a text.
Key Details
First Person Point of View
Exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literally.
Hyperbole
An action occurred before another event in the past.
Past Perfect
The process of drawing a conclusion based on the available evidence plus previous knowledge and experience. AKA an educated guess.
Inference
This point of view uses the following pronouns: She, her, he, him, they, them.
Third Person Point of View
The occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words.
Alliteration
An action occurred at an unspecified time in the past.
Present Perfect
A restatement of a text, passage
paraphrase
A particular attitude toward something. The way you see something. Your point of view.
Perspective
A word or phrase which means something different from its literal meaning.
Idiom
An action will occur before another event in the future.
Future Perfect
Taking a lot of information and creating a condensed version that covers the main points. An example of this is writing a three or four-sentence description that touches upon the main points of a long book.
Summarizing
A point of view in which the narrator knows the thoughts and feelings of all of the characters in the story.
Third Person Omniscient