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 |