Fiction
Nonfiction
Poetry
Drama
Vocabulary
100

Tells a made up story

Fiction


100

Passages that tell about real-life people, places, things, ideas, or events

Nonfiction

100

A group of lines in a poem

Stanza

100

A play

Drama

100

Words that have the same meaning

Synonym

200

Qualities that define a character

Character traits

200

The author's reason for writing

Author's purpose

200

The attitude or feeling that the author has about the subject

Tone

200

The person that tells the story

Narrator

200

Words that express more than their literal meaning

Figurative language

300

Where and when a story takes place

Setting

300

An educated guess based on the information in a passage and your prior knowledge

Inference

300

The central message or the lesson that the author wants to get across

Theme

300

A part of a play

Act

300

Words that have opposite meanings

Antonyms

400

The problem in a story

Conflict

400

The way an author arranges or organizes a text.

Text Structure

400

Hint about events that will happen later

Foreshadowing

400

The writer of plays. 

Playwright

400

The pattern of end rhyme in a poem

Rhyme Scheme

500

The perspective from which a story is told

Point of view

500

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

500

Is a person, place, or thing that represents something beyond its literal meaning

Symbolism

500

A long speech delivered by a character who is alone onstage

Monologue

500

Using other words in the sentence or passage to help determine the meaning of an unknown words

Context clues