Benchmark Vocab.
The characters thoughts, feelings, or actions in a story.
"On a mountain in Tennessee..."
What is SETTING?
Aquatic (aqua)
What is WATER?
Shelby sells seashells at the seashore.
What is ALLITERATION?
Giving human traits to something that is not human.
What is PERSONIFICATION?
What happens in a story/text.
What is PLOT?
highlighted/bolded words, captions, pictures, glossary, heading...
What are TEXT FEATURES?
Pretest (pre)
What is BEFORE?
"Boom", "Splash", "Kapow"
What is ONOMATOPOEIA?
Helps the reader form a picture in their mind.
What is IMAGERY?
How the author feels about the topic.
What is AUTHORS PERSPECTIVE?
Description, cause/effect, sequence, chronology.
What are TEXT STRUCTURES?
Microscopic (Micro)
What is SMALL?
As busy as a bee.
What is SIMILE?
The beat of the poem you can hear when it's read out loud.
What is RHYTHM?
The underlying message of the text.
What is THEME?
"I wrote this story to help readers better understand what is happening to the planet and how we can save it"
What is AUTHORS PURPOSE?
Benefit (bene)
What is GOOD?
I'm so hungry I could eat a horse.
What is HYPERBOLE?
A group of lines within the poem.
What is STANZA?
What the story is mostly about.
What is CENTRAL IDEA?
"That dog walking towards me looks very scary"
What is CHARACTERS PERSPECTIVE?
Submarine (sub)
What is UNDER?
Break a leg
What is IDIOM?
Lines or words that are repeated in a poem.
What is REPETITION?