| A | B |
|---|
| careful | cautious |
| hesitant | afraid |
| short story | a short work of fiction |
| first-person | is told from the point of view of a specific person in the story |
| third-person | is told from the point of view of someone outside of the story |
| observe | to watch |
| mimic | to imitate |
| metaphor | A comparison that does not use like or as: She had butterfies in her stomach. |
| simile | A comparison that uses like or as: She swims like a fish. |
| imagery | The use of sensory language to form mental images. |
| play | A piece of fiction written for dramatic production. |
| fable | A short narrative ending with a moral. |
| legend | An unconfirmed story passed down through generations. |
| myth | A traditional story with supernatural beings usually of Greek, Roman, or Norse origin. |
| cause and effect | The text shows that one event causes another thing to happen. |
| order of importance | The text is organized in the order of importance according to the author. |
| catagories | The text is divided into parts. Each part tells you about something different. |
| compare and contrast | The text shows how ideas or things are alike or different. |
| spatial | Writing is organized from top to bottom, back to front, or left to right. |
| chronilogical order | The writer places events in the order that they occur |
| everyone | an indefinite pronoun |
| I | a personal pronoun |
| mine | a possessive pronoun |
| personification | Gives human qualities or emotions to things. My computer hates me. |
| alliteration | Is repetition of the initial sound in two or more words. The big bear is brown. |
| hyperbole | Exaggeration is used for emphasis or effect. I told you a million times not to exaggerate. |
| Onomatopoeia | The imitation of natural sounds in word form. |
| Beliavable or realistic | Representing life as it actually is. |
