an implied or indirect reference in literature to a familiar person, place or event
What is allusion?
100
type of text structure that gives a series or steps from first to last
What is sequence and order?
100
time and place in which a story unfolds
What is setting?
100
how the author creates the person by what the person says and does, how they appear, what others say about them
What is characterization?
200
the main character to which the story is built around
What is protagonist?
200
the source of the conflict to which the protagonist struggles
What is antagonist?
200
type of text structure that explains a topic in great detail
What is description?
200
a comparison of two unlike things using like or as
What is simile?
200
the theme or author's statement of their beliefs
What is central message?
300
section of any introductory writing before the first chapter in a novel or before the first stanza of poetic work
What is prologue?
300
repeating consonant sound such as "buckets of big blueberries"
What is allliteration?
300
type of text structure that presents a puzzle or issue and ways to solve it
What is problem and solution?
300
author's choices regarding language, sentence structure, voice and tone
What is style?
300
wording under a photo, graph, diagram, illustration, or other graphic
What is caption?
400
brief restatement in one's own words of all or part of another's writing
What is paraphrase?
400
to inform, persuade or entertain
What is author's purpose?
400
form of text structure that shows how thinks are alike and how they are different
What is compare and contrast?
400
lines of a poem that have been grouped together
What is stanza?
400
the "extra" meaning a word can carry beyond what the dictionary meaning intended, such as "revolution" is often used to explain scientific change, but the "extra" meaning often suggests violencee
What is connotation?
500
information, rumors, ideas or artwork spread deliberately to help or harm another specific group, belief, institution, or government
What is propaganda?
500
an extended comparison showing similarities between two things
What is an analogy?
500
type of text structure that presents an event and possible events following the event
What is cause and effect?
500
a concise (brief) retelling of a story or event
What is summary?
500
word, words or phrase in a sentence that help explain the meaning of a word