Fiction
Tells a made up story
Fiction
Passages that tell about real-life people, places, things, ideas, or events
Nonfiction
A group of lines in a poem
Stanza
A play
Drama
Words that have the same meaning
Synonym
Qualities that define a character
Character traits
The author's reason for writing
Author's purpose
The attitude or feeling that the author has about the subject
Tone
The person that tells the story
Narrator
Words that express more than their literal meaning
Figurative language
Where and when a story takes place
Setting
An educated guess based on the information in a passage and your prior knowledge
Inference
The central message or the lesson that the author wants to get across
Theme
A part of a play
Act
Words that have opposite meanings
Antonyms
The problem in a story
Conflict
The way an author arranges or organizes a text.
Text Structure
Hint about events that will happen later
Foreshadowing
The writer of plays.
Playwright
The pattern of end rhyme in a poem
Rhyme Scheme
The perspective from which a story is told
Point of view
Include all the components of a story or article that are not the main body of text. These include the table of contents, index, glossary, headings, bold words, sidebars, pictures and captions, and labeled diagrams.
Text Features
Is a person, place, or thing that represents something beyond its literal meaning
Symbolism
A long speech delivered by a character who is alone onstage
Monologue
Using other words in the sentence or passage to help determine the meaning of an unknown words
Context clues