Word Parts
The Greek root "auto" means this.
What is Self
This part of the plot provides background info and introduces the setting.
What is the exposition?
"The classroom was a zoo" is an example of this.
What is a metaphor?
The author’s attitude toward the subject, such as "humorous" or "serious."
What is tone?
A word that means the opposite of another word.
If the root "spect" means to see, this word means a person who watches a game.
What is a spectator?
A character who undergoes a major internal change during a story.
Giving human qualities to an object, like "the wind whispered."
What is personification?
A side-trip or "extra" text box in an article that provides additional info.
What is a sidebar?
The perspective from which a story is told (e.g., 1st person, 3rd person).
What is point of view?
This is the part of a word added to the beginning to change its meaning.
What is a prefix?
This is the turning point or the most intense part of the story.
What is the climax?
An extreme exaggeration used for emphasis?
What is a hyperbole?
This text structure explains why something happened and what the result was.
What is cause and effect?
This is the central message, moral, or "lesson learned" in a piece of literature.
What is theme?
Using nearby words or sentences to figure out a word's meaning is using these.
What are Context Clues?
The term for the "hero" and the "villain" or Good guy and Bad Guy.
What are protagonist and antagonist?
When an author gives hints about what will happen later in the story.
What is foreshadowing
When an author shows a strong preference for or against something; a lack of neutrality.
What is bias?
To restate the main ideas of a text in your own words, making it much shorter.
What is a summary?
The root "bene" (as in benefit or benevolent) means this.
A character who stays the same from the beginning to the end.
What is a static character?
The repetition of the same initial consonant sound, like "Seven snakes slithered."
What is alliteration?
This text structure focuses on the similarities and differences between two or more things.
What is compare and contrast?
A word that has the same or nearly the same meaning as another word.
What is a synonym?