| A | B |
| *Predict | Use background knowledge about the subject & clues from story to guess what will happen next |
| *Sensory Images | Describing details so reader can see, touch, taste, smell, or hear what's happening to understand better |
| *Inference | Use background knowledge and information from story to make true statement |
| *Draw a Conclusion | Use information from story/text and information from story/text to make true statement |
| *Summary | Collect main events or important facts to make shortened form |
| *Fiction | Peter Pan; Fake, made-up story |
| *Non-fiction | Battles of the Civil War; Not fake; true facts and information about real people, places, and things |
| *Make inferences | Almost same as drawing conclusions |
| Sensory Image Words | radiant sunset, scratchy,rough sweater, |
| Personification Example | Slowly, the sea ate the beach away. |
| Personification Definition | When a object/animal does "person" traits |
| Alliteration | Author starts 2 to 3 or more words in a row with same letter |
| Simile | Comparison using like or as |
| Metaphor | Name calling comparison NO like/as |
| Hyperbole Definition | A TOTAL exaggeration |
| Onomatapoaie | Words that sound like the sound they make |
| Simile | Comparison using like or as |
| Metaphor | Comparison using name-calling |
| Personification | Winds stole the leaves from trees |
| Hyperbole | Extreme exaggeration |
| Onomatopoiea | Word sounds like the sound it makes |
| Alliteration | Author uses 2, 3 or more words in a row that start with same letter |
| Analogy | Relationships between two words |
| Adverb | Describes verbs, sometimes adjectives, & adverbs |
| Verb | is, are, crash, postpone |
| Conflict | Struggle or problem between 2 opposing sides |
| Plot | plan |
| Climax | High point of story; where story takes a turn |
| Internal conflict | Decision inside character; good choice - bad choice |
| External Conflict | Character against another character |
| *Background knowledge | What reader knows about, experienced, or has seen about the subject |
| Conjunction | Words to connect words and phrases |
| Idiom | Words don't mean what they say |
| Idiom | Raining cats & dogs; |
| Hyperbole example | You are the smartest person in the world |
| Individual vs Individual | Maniac McGee against other character |
| Individual vs Nature | New Orleans citizen everything in Hurricane Katrina |
| Individual vs Supernatural | Character blaming God for death of father |
| Individual vs society | Hatchet character going back in wilderness due to hating regular life, school, and home |
| First Person Point of View | Story is written and told by narrator; I remember when I was little |
| Individual vs self | Travis deciding to study for test or placy wii |
| Individual vs Technology | Character can not apply for a job on-line because he can't use computer program |
| Third person limited point of view | Story told by someone outside watching events but limited to seeing from one character's view of it |
| Third person omniscent point of view | Story told by outside person who's looking on and sees it from everyone's unbiased view |