Fiction
The message, moral, or lesson of a story
What is theme?
Someone who is NOT part of a play and only exists to provide readers/the audience with extra information about the story
What is a narrator?
Comparing two things WITHOUT using "like" or "as"
What is a metaphor?
What the text is mostly about
What is controlling idea (main idea)?
What an author believes to be true (needs to be supported with evidence and reasoning)
What is a claim?
The part of a story where the main character experiences a major change or realization
What is climax (turning point)?
Instructions that are given to the actors that are not meant to be read aloud
What are stage directions?
An exaggeration to show strong feeling or effect
What is hyperbole?
The reason why the author wrote the text
What is author's purpose?
An argument that goes against another argument
What is a counterargument?
When a story goes back in time
What is flashback?
The conversations the characters have
What is dialogue?
The narrator in a poem
What is speaker?
Clues in and around a text (such as subheading, footnotes, and bold words) that help the readers understand the text better
What are text features?
Using words that have strong feelings attached to them (positive or negative)
What is loaded language?
When the author provides hints about what will happen later on in the story
What is foreshadowing?
This changes when the setting changes
What is a scene?
Authors give details about a topic to create this and help readers imagine the text in their mind
What is imagery?
The strategy used to write a short-constructed response
What is APE?
Using the same idea to prove itself without giving any real evidence: "Many video games contain violence, so kids who play video games are violent."
What is circular reasoning?
When the opposite of what you expect to happen occurs
What is irony?
Bigger than a scene, like a chapter in a play
What is an act?
A poem with stanzas that each consist of 4 lines
What is a quatrain?
The way a text is structured, such as classification, problem/solutions, and advantage and disadvantage
The act of placing two things side by side, especially when they are DIFFERENT, to highlight similarities and differences
What is juxtaposition?