Vocabulary
Point of view of someone outside of the story.
What is third person point of view?
Words and phrases that appeal to the senses of sight, sound, smell, taste, and touch.
Characters, settings and plot
What are story elements
A story created from an author's imagination.
What is fiction?
The ballerina danced on the stage with grace and precision. The audience watched in silence as her body flitted across the stage.
What can we infer?
She is an incredible dancer and the audience is captivated by her work.
An educated guess based on the details in the story and your own knowledge.
What is an inference
Creative comparisons unlike things, to help readers imagine these things in new ways.
What is figurative language?
A problem the characters must respond to.
Non-fiction writing that explains how the natural world works using facts, data, and observations.
What is scientific text?
A baker has pulled a tray of warm cookies out of the oven, and the sweet chocolatey arome filling the air. The baker carefully arrange them on a tray and places them inside a glass case.
What can we infer?
The baker owns a store and is refilling a bakery case before he opens.
A brief retelling of a story that included the main characters, setting and important events, and the story's theme.
What is a summary?
The feeling of a word or phrase produces in the reader's mind.
What is connotative meaning?
When a problem in a story is solved.
What is a resolution?
Writing that is true, factual, and based on real-life events, people or information.
What is non-fiction?
A detective examines the dusty bookshelf, her finger tracing the spines of the old books. She notices a faint smudge on one of the books and pulls it out, and begins flipping through the pages.
What can we infer?
The detective is looking for clues and the book may be part of the clue or key to solving the mystery.
An examination of how the different parts of something work together.
What is an analysis?
Creative way to describe something by saying it IS another thing.
What is a metaphor?
A person, animal, or creature who acts in a story.
What are characters?
Factual explanation, description, or narrative from or about the past.
What is a historical account?
The young woman stood at the train station, her backpack resting on her back. She glanced at the departure board, scanning the list of destinations and times. She took a deep breath, smiled and walked towards a set of doors.
What can we infer?
The woman is going on a journey or vacation and is excited to start.
The repeated use of a sound, word, phrase or line
What is repetition?
Compares two different things using words "like" or "as" to create a vivid image.
What is a simile?
The time and place where a story happens
What is a setting?
A story set in the past that combines made-up characters and events with historical figures and real events from a specific time and place.
What is historical fiction?
The chef carefully arranged the delicate pastries on the stand, each one unique. The aroma of warm sugar and cinnamon filled the air, and the guests began to gather, their eyes wide with excitement.
What can we infer?
A special occasion or event is going to begin, and the dessert is the central part.
The repetition of consonant sounds at the beginnings of words?
What is an alliteration?
What is an idiom?
The sequence of events that make up a story, telling what happens from beginning to the end.
What is plot?
Informational writing designed to teach the reader how to do something or explains a specific topic.
What is a technical text?
The clouds were thick and gray across the sky. The rumble of thunder could be heard across the land. Lightening flashes were seen behind the clouds and a wail was echoing through the trees.
What can we infer?
A bad thunderstorm is approaching and it may involve a tornado.
The main message in a story.
What is theme?
Words that sound like the noise it makes, such as buzz, pop, or splat.
What is an onomatopoeia?
The introduction where the characters, setting and main conflict are established.
What is exposition?
Creative, short piece of writing that plays with words, rhythm and rhyme to express feelings or tell a story.
What is a poem?
The soccer player leaned against the wall, exhausted with sweat dripping down her face. She glanced at the scoreboard, her eyes narrowing in determination. The buzzer went off and she pushed off the wall, and sprinted back onto the field.
What can we infer?
The soccer player is determined to finish the game no matter how tired they are.
The repetition of sounds at the ends of words, gives poems a musical quality and creates unity between ideas.
What is rhyme?
What is personification?
A series of events and issues that build tension for the characters of the story.
What is rising action?
Story acted out live on a stage by actors for an audience.
What is a play?
A student walked into the empty auditorium, the stage lights were low, casting shadows. He pulled out a crumpled script out of his pocket and begin to read aloud.
What can we infer?
The student is practicing for a performance and is taking his role seriously.
Narrator of the story, and a character in the story.
What is first person point of view?
What is hyperbole?
The events that occur after the climax and conflicts of the story are being resolved.
What is falling action?
Explains how one event makes another event happen.
What is cause and effect?
The mechanic slid out from under the car, wiping grease from his hands. He frowned, shaking his head. He walked back to the front of store where the customer waited. His face grim as he wiped his hands with a towel.
What can we infer?
There is something wrong with the car and he has to tell the car owner.
Who is telling the story or perspective.
What is point of view?
Using objects to represent deeper meanings.
What is symbolism?
The turning point in the story, or the dramatic confrontation in the story.
What is climax?
Putting events, steps, or items in a specific, logical order.
What is sequential order?
A hiker reached the summit, wind whipping around him. He took a deep breathe, gazing at the panoramic view spread out before him. He pulled out a worn map, compass and binoculars.
The hiker is enjoying the view after the difficult climb and is preparing to continue his journey.