FICTION
The sequence of events in a story.
What is plot?
A group of lines in a poem.
What is a stanza?
The most important point of a passage.
What is main idea?
A true story about a person's life written by someone else.
What is a Biography?
Type of fiction where the characters are trying to solve a crime or something puzzling.
What is a mystery?
The way an author develops a character.
What is characterization?
The pattern of rhyming words in a poem.
What is rhyme scheme?
The way an author organizes information in a text.
What is text structure?
A true story about a person's life written by that person.
What is an Autobiography?
Words that tell actors where to stand or how to say their lines.
What are stage directions?
The central message or moral of the story.
What is theme?
A direct comparison between two unlike things.
example: You are a shining star.
What is a metaphor?
A statement that can be proven rather than a personal belief.
What is fact?
A personal story about an important moment or theme in someone's life.
What is a memoir?
The main idea of an informational text.
What is a thesis statement?
The struggle between opposing forces in a story.
What is conflict?
A comparison using like or as.
What is a simile?
A personal belief.
What is an opinion?
Events presented in the order they happen in the story.
Chronological Order?
Type of fiction based on a true event from the past.
What is historical fiction?
Describe mood.
What is the feeling a story creates for the reader?
The repetition of beginning consonant sounds.
example: She sells sea shells.
What is Alliteration?
What is supporting evidence?
The author's attitude toward the subject.
What is tone?
Words spoken between characters in a play.
What is dialogue?
The perspective from which the story is told.
What is point of view?
Descriptive language that creates a picture in the reader's mind.
What is imagery?
A conclusion based on clues in the text and prior knowledge.
What is inference?
Descriptive language that appeals to the senses.
What are sensory details?
The words spoken between characters in a story.
What is dialogue?
The feeling created by the poem for the reader.
What is mood?
Elements that help organize and explain information.
Example: heading, title, caption, chart, photo, etc.
What are Text Features?
Clues that suggest what will happen later in the story.
What is foreshadowing?
Words or phrases that are repeated for effect.
What is repetition?
The author's overall belief about a topic
What is thesis statement?