Fiction
Nonfiction
Poetry
Drama
Grammar
100

The main character of the story.

Protagonist

100

When you combine your prior knowledge with what you are reading.

Inference

100

The person that narrates the poem.

Speaker

100

An introductory scene (usually where a narrator summarized the main action or setting of the scene.)

Prologue

100

a portion or piece of a sentence. (Not a complete sentence.)

Fragment

200

The attitude or feeling that the author has about the subject. 

Tone

200

A writer presents an assertion as truth.

Claim

200

Short musical poetry that deals with thoughts and emotions. 

Lyrical poetry

200

give directions to the actors how to act on stage. They are usually in parenthesis or italics

Stage directions

200

A clause that includes a complete subject and predicate. 

A Complete sentence or independent clause.

300

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

Symbolism

300

Putting a part or or all of a text you are reading into your own words.

Paraphrase

300

Repetition of the vowel sound inside words. (Ex: The road the toad strode on was gold. 

Assonance

300
A long speech by one single character to other characters.

Monologue

300

Separates independent clauses

semi-colon

400

Reasons why the characters act the way they do.

Character motivation

400

A writer presents reasons to challenge an opposing argument.

Rebuttal

400

A description that strongly appeals to the 5 senses: sight, smell, touch, hear, taste. 

Imagery

400

Involves the ruin of the leading characters (something depressing or disastrous happens.)

Tragedy

400

Two independent clauses joined by coordinating concunction.

Compound sentence

500

A character is struggling against an outside force, such as another character, nature, or society. 

External conflict

500

Taking information from two or more areas of text and adding all this connecter information together to come up with a conclusion.

Synthesize

500

Two words that rhyme on the same line. (Ex: Once upon a midnight dreary, as I pondered weak and weary.) 

Internal rhyme

500

a character may turn to the audience to make an observation or quippy remark that the other characters can't hear

An Aside

500

When a pronoun matches the noun it refers to in number, person, and gender (e.g., "she" matches "Sarah").

Pronoun - Antecedent agreement