Fiction Vocabulary
A story that is made up, not based on real events
What is Fiction?
A statement that can be proven true or false through evidence
What is Fact?
The spoken words between characters of a play or performance
What is dialogue?
Information, examples, or facts used to support an argument or claim
What is evidence?
A group of lines within a poem
What is stanza?
The central message or lesson of a story or text
What is theme?
The primary point or central concept of a text
What is main idea?
A major division of a play, often containing several scenes
What is Act?
A statement that something is true, which requires support or evidence
What is claim?
The repetition of similar sounds at the end of words
What is rhyme?
Restating something in your own words while maintaining the original meaning
What is paraphrase?
Elements like headings, bold print, italics, captions, and bullet points that help highlight important information
What is text features?
Instructions in the script that guide actors' movements, emotions, and physical actions
What is stage directions?
To convince someone to do or to believe something
What is persuade?
Descriptive language that appeals to the senses and crates vivid mental pictures
What is figurative language?
A conclusion or guess made based on evidence or reasoning
What is inference?
The organization of a text, including how ideas are arranged and linked together ex. cause and effect, problem and solution, time order.
What is text structure?
A smaller divisor within an act, typically occurring in a single location and time
The quality of being trustworthy or believable
What is credibility?
A figure of speech that compares two things using "like" or "as"
What is simile?
What is third person narrator?
The arrangement of events or ideas in the order they occur in time
What is chronological order?
The physical environment or backdrop that represents the location of the scene
What is set?
A summary or general review of a subject, providing the main points without going into detail
What is overview?
Giving human qualities or characteristics to non-human things
What is personification?