6th Grade Vocabulary
What is the definition of compare ?
Identifying similarities between two or more objects.
Define METAPHOR
What is a direct comparison of things without using like or as
What the text is about: beginning, middle and end, no opinions.
What is the summary?
Define nonfiction
What is a book or text that is true and factual?
Fantasy, Myths, Folktales are all examples of this genre
What is Fiction?
define simile
What is comparing two things using 'like' or 'as'
"Ouch! "Boom!" "Pow!" are all examples of this
onomatopoeia
The central idea or controlling idea of a text.
What is the main idea?
What is cause and effect .
The why and the result of what happens.
Define internal conflict
What is a problem a character is having with themselves?
The lesson which the author is trying to teach in a story.
What is theme?
Use of the 5 senses to describe and create pictures in the reader's mind
What is imagery?
Third person P.O.V.
Define chronological order in a text
Listing events in the order of when they occur.
The most intense and interesting part or turning point of a story.
What is climax?
The conversation in a text between characters
What is dialogue?
The third planet from the sun
What is Earth?
List 3 examples of Text Features and what they do.
Answers may vary
What is the author's purpose of fictional stories? (usually)
Author's Purpose is to entertain
Define Inference
What is making an educated guess based on evidence?
Peter Piper picked a pack of pickled peppers is an example of...
What is alliteration
This is what happens in the exposition part of a plot diagram.
What is the beginning of a story where characters, setting, and key parts are introduced to the reader.
Another name for controlling idea
What is main idea or central idea?
The difference between prose and poetry.
What is Literary pieces of work where the author uses creative terms to entertain the reader. Written in stanza and usually contains different type of figurative language?