Parts of Speech
A group of lines in poem is called a ________________
stanza
The person telling the story is the______________
narrator
What is main idea?
The primary or most important thought in a paragraph or passage.
The beginning of the story is called ________
Rising Action
What piece of figurative language compares to things.
metaphor
What is similar to a sentence in a poem?
a line
You can make an inference by looking at _________________________ and ________________________________.
Background knowledge and Text evidence
What does infer mean?
A smart guess made by putting together clues form the text and what you already know.
She had to wear a raincoat to school.
We can infer it was raining.
Every story always has these two things.
Problem and solution
The phrase "The girl was a sneaky as a snake" is a_____________
simile
The pattern of rhyming in a poem is called the _____________.
rhyme scheme
This is where or when a story takes place.
setting
What is author's purpose?
The reason an author writes a passage.
P - To persuade someone to think or do something
I - To inform another person of something
E - To entertain someone a certain way
The problem in the story is called the _______.
Conflict
The type of figurative language that exaggerates is a
hyperbole
How many stanzas in the poem?
I had a little turtle
His name was Tiny Tim
I put him in the bathtub
To see if he could swim.
He drank up all the water
He ate up all the soap
And when he tried to talk
He had bubbles in his throat.
2
This is the moral, lesson, or message of a story.
theme
What are my dogs' names?
Paddington and Winnie
The big part near the end of the story that every event has built up to is called the__________.
Climax
"I let the cat out of the bag" is an example of a _____________
Idiom
I had a little froggy
His name was Tiny Tim
I put him in the bathtub
To see if he could swim
ABCB
Motivation
What is Theme?
The main message or big idea an author wants to learn from a story.
The solution to the problem.
Resolution
"The tree branches danced on the breeze" is an example of _____________
Personification