Poetry
Comparing two unlike things saying one is the other. Example: The ducks marched in a soldier's parade.
What is metaphor?
A story written to be acted out in front of an audience
What is a play or drama?
The vantage point from which a story is told...can be 1st, 3rd limited, 3rd objective, or omniscient
What is point of view. Extra points: define all four types of point of views.
The time and place where a story takes place.
What is the setting?
The "A Ha" moment in the story.
What is the climax?
Comparing two unlike objects saying one thing is like the other. Example: You smell like a pig!
What is simile?
Stories with scientific elements that are not true...yet?
What is science fiction?
The story of a person's life written by another person
What is biography.
Using text evidence and background knowledge to come to a conclusion about a passage.
What is an inference?
The beginning, it tells where, when and how the story will take place.
What is the introduction/exposition?
Poetry without regular meter or rhyme, also a style of Rappin'
What is free verse?
Fictional literature not over 20 pages long and it's not tall
What is a short story?
What other characters say about them and what the author says about the character.
What are character traits.
The use of words to appeal to the five senses: see, smell, taste, touch, hear.
What is imagery?
This is before the Climax and after the Introduction on a plot diagram.
What is Rising Action.
The pattern of rhyming at the end of lines
What is rhyme scheme?
A genre of text that gives you facts, explanations, a timeline of events, or step by step processes.
What is informational text?
Giving animals or non-human things person like characteristics.
What is personification.
The use of words that echo their sense: crash, bang, boom
What is onomatopoeia?
This is the after the Conflict on a plot diagram. I am the End
What is Resolution.
Poetry that is humorous and often rude, and only has 5 lines.
What is a limerick?
A genre of text that wants the reader to do or believe something
The "take away" message, what YOU get from the story
What is theme?
When the author stops the action of a story to tell what has happened in the past, also a ride at 6 Flags
What is flashback?
The portion of the story where the problems are being solved
What is the falling action?