AUTHORS CRAFT
What the text is
mostly about.
Main Idea
● Type of figurative
language, that
compares things
using like or as.
Simile
The final part of a
story, often called
the ending or how
the problem is
solved.
Resolution
The way an author
organizes the text.
Text
Structure
Type of figurative
language that
directly compares 2
things.
Metaphor
● The part of a story
where the plot
builds, the lead up
to the biggest, most
intense moment.
Rising Action
Type of figurative
language, that
repeats words with
the same letter
sounds
consecutively.
Alliteration
The perspective
from which a story
is told, essentially
answering "who is
telling the story?”
Point of
view
Type of figurative
language, that gives
human qualities to
non human things.
Personification
● The most exciting,
intense, or
important part of
the story— where
the main character
faces their biggest
problem. Where the
problem seems like
its at its worst.
Climax
● Type of figurative
language, that is a
funny phrase or
expression that
means something
totally different
from what the
words actually say.
They are not meant
to be taken literally,
Idiom
A type of point of view where the narrator is outside of the story but the reader only knows what the main character thinks or feels
Type of figurative
language, that
exaggerates or
uses dramatic
examples
Hyperbole
The begining of the story, where the characters and setting are introduced
Exposition
The lesson or moral of a story
Theme
A type of point of view where the narrator is outside of the story but the reader knows what everyone thinks or feels
3rd person omniscient
Type of figurative
language, that has
words that make
sound.
Onomonopeia
What a paragraph is called in poetry
stanza
The pattern of rhyme in a poem
Rhyming scheme/ Rhyming Pattern