General
A person who tells a story or gives an account of what happened?
What is the narrator
Nonfiction written to convey information. Ex. Brochures, directions, manuals, news reports, etc.
What is informational text?
One of two or more words that have the same or nearly identical meanings
What is a synonym?
The moral of the story.
What is theme?
A comparison between 2 things using like or as. Ex. The baby was as cute as a button.
What is a simile?
A segment of a written work or speech
What is a passage?
Nonfiction text that teaches or instructs. Ex. how to, recipe
What is instructional?
Drawing conclusions by examining clues from the text
What is an inference?
The reason an author writes a passage. Ex. to entertain, persuade, or inform
What s author's purpose
A direct comparison between 2 unlike things without using like or as.
Ex. Time was a thief
What is a metaphor?
The way in which a character views the situation
What is point of view?
The story of a person's entire life written by himself or herself
What is an autobiography?
A broad statement that applies to many different situations. Ex. 6th graders always leave a mess at their lunch tables
What is a generalization?
The event that leads to the climax
What is rising action?
Giving human characteristics to an animal, object, or idea.
Ex. the sea called out to me
What is personification?
The author's central thought; the topic sentence of a paragraph
What is the main idea?
The story of a person's life written by someone other than the subject
What is a biography?
A statement you can prove to be true
What is a fact?
Drawing conclusions from clues and facts found in the story
What is climax?
An exaggerated statement idea to heighten effect
ex: I must have told you a million times.
What is a hyperbole?
The solution to a problem; Where the conflict is resolved
What is resolution?
Text that conveys a true story of a single event or events of one self's life rather than about the person's entire life- includes dialogue
What is a personal narrative?
A statement that cannot be proven or a statement someone believes to be true about something
What is an opinion?
The method an author uses to reveal characters and their personalities
What is characterization?
or
What is character traits?
Imitation of nautral sounds, words you hear
Ex: splat, bang, ding-dong
What is an onomatopoeia?