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Author's Purpose
Author's POV
Vocabulary
Characteristics of Fiction
Vocab from the questions themselves
100
The purpose an author has when he/she wants you to enjoy yourself as you read
What is entertain?
100
the person who is telling the story or poem
What is a narrator or speaker?
100
description using the five senses
What is imagery?
100
the people, animals, creatures in a story
What are the characters?
100
what the story is mostly about
What is main idea?
200
The purpose an author has when he/she wants to give you information about a topic
What is to inform?
200
The point of view when a character in the story tells it, uses words like I, me, and we.
What is first person?
200
finding similarities and differences between two things
What is compare and contrast?
200
when and where the story takes place
What is setting?
200
what the word reveal means
What is "to show"?
300
the purpose an author has when he/she wants to convince the reader to do or believe something
What is persuade?
300
the point of view when a narrator (not in the story) tells it, using words like he, she, and they
What is third person?
300
the lesson or moral of the story
What is theme?
300
the events of the story (the action)
What is plot?
300
what conclude/infer means
What is "to use evidence from the story to figure out what the author is trying to say"?
400
the purpose an author has when he/she gives step by step directions for how to do something
What is explain?
400
the point of view when the author uses the word "you" and gives commands/directions
What is second person?
400
Explain what a misplaced modifier is...
What is a description that is put in the wrong place in a sentence, so it is modifying the wrong noun
400
the turning point of the story
What is climax?
400
what compare and contrast means
What is to find the similarities and differences?
500
the purpose an author has when he/she gives specific details that give the reader a good visual of what is being talked about (uses imagery)
What is describe?
500
Explain the difference between 3rd person limited and 3rd person omniscient.
What is... omniscient means all knowing (knows all characters thoughts, feelings, etc.) while limited means that the narrator knows only one character's thoughts, feelings, etc.
500
Explain the difference between connotation and denotation
What is the feeling of the word vs. the dictionary definition of the word
500
the feeling the author creates in the story
What is mood?
500
a reference to an event/person from history or another book
What is an allusion?