figurative language
Giving a nonhuman human characteristics
What is personification?
A person, place, thing, or idea
Noun
where and when an event takes place in a short story
Setting
It is what the passage or paragraph is about.
Main idea/gist
a struggle a character faces
Conflict
a direct comparison of two different things
What is metaphor
Used to take the place of a noun.
Pronoun
the most intense or exciting high point of a short story
Climax
The reason why an author writes.
Author's Purpose
a sign or warning of whats going to happen next
Foreshadowing
An action or state of being
Verb
the main events of a short story
Plot
When you do not know the definition and you have to look around the word.
Context Clues
Using language to paint a picture in the reader's head
Imagery
Who/what the sentence is about.
Subject
the lesson or moral of a story
Theme
The feeling the author wants the reader to get.
Mood
Using prior knowledge and what you read to determine what is happening.
Inference?
A descriptive word
Adjective
the perspective from which the story's told
point of view
The vocabulary an author uses to show how he or she feels about a topic.
Tone
Highlighting, writing notes, defining vocab while reading a text.
Annotating