Characters & Conflict
What is a character?
A person or animal in a story.
What is a main idea?
What the text is mostly about.
What is the author's point of view?
What the author thinks or believes.
What does the root word "mis" mean in "mistake?"
"mis" means wrongly.
What is an adjective?
A word that describes a noun?
What is a problem in a story called?
A conflict.
What helps you find the main idea?
Look at the title and first/last sentence.
What is a simile?
A comparison using "like" or "as."
What does "-ful" mean in "wonderful?"
-ful means full of.
What is an independent clause?
a complete thought that can stand alone as a sentence.
What does a character's actions show us?
What kind of person they are (traits).
What is a heading?
A title for a section of nonfiction.
What is a metaphor?
A comparison that says something is/was something else.
What does the prefix "-un" mean?
Not
What is a dependent clause?
A clause that does not form a simple sentence by itself.
What's the difference between inside and outside problems?
Inside: thoughts/feelings
Outside: other people or things
What does "compare" mean?
To tell how things are the same.
What is personification? Give an example.
When you give human qualities or actions to something that isn't human.
What does this idiom mean: "It's a piece of cake?"
It's very easy
What does "author's purpose" mean?
The reason an author writes something, like a book or article.
Why do stories have problems and solutions?
To make a story interesting and show how character's change.
What does "cause and effect" mean?
Cause: Why something happened
Effect: What happened
Why do authors use similes and metaphors?
To help readers picture things.
What does "preview" mean?
To look at something before you read or see it.
What does "author's perspective" mean?
What an author thinks or believes about a topic they are writing about.