A person portrayed in a novel, short story, or play.
What is a character?
100
Words that mean more than their literal meaning
What is figurative language?
100
Certain details that the author uses to add meaning for the reader is this.
What are text features?
100
Picking apart similarities and differences is called this.
What is compare and contrast?
200
The problem in the story.
What is the conflict?
200
Words the author uses to put a picture in the reader’s mind.
What is imagery?
200
The repetition of the same sounds or of the same kinds of sounds at the beginning of words or in stressed syllables is this.
What is alliteration?
200
Using a note of explanation or comment added to a text or diagram, is called this.
What is annotation?
200
This definition is noting a relationship between actions or events such that one or more are the result of the other or others.
What is cause and effect?
300
Sequence of events in a story where each event causes the next event to happen.
What is plot?
300
Saying something is something else for comparison.
What is a metaphor?
300
A figure of speech in which incongruous or seemingly contradictory terms appear side by side, is this?
What is an oxymoron?
300
This is a method by which the meanings of unknown words may be obtained by examining the parts of a sentence surrounding the word.
What is using context clues?
300
This structures shows how to do something or make something, or to relate a series of events that happen over time
What is chronological order?
400
The good person in a story.
What is the protagonist?
400
Words imitating sounds.
What is onomatopoeia?
400
The use of exaggeration as a rhetorical device or figure of speech is this.
What is hyperbole
400
The author's intended view on his or her piece of work is called this.
What is purpose (or author's purpose?)
400
A structure that involves steps is called this.
What is a sequence?
500
Hints in a story of what is going to happen to the plot or a character.
What is foreshadowing?
500
Attaching human characteristics to something that is not human.
What is personification?
500
A rhetorical figure expressing comparison or likeness that directly compares two things through some connective word such as like, as, so, than, or a verb such as resembles, is this.
What is a simile?
500
Making a conclusion reached on the basis of evidence and reasoning is called this.
What is an inference?
500
These different structures can be found on FCAT writes.