| A | B |
|---|
| Alliteration | Words in a sentence that all sound similar or have the same beginning |
| Allusion | A reference to a statement |
| Autobiography | A story about a persons life told by that person |
| Biography | A story about someone told by someone else |
| Character | The people or animals in a story |
| Conflict | Difficulties |
| Connotations | Feelings or emotions in a story |
| Description | A writing that creates a clear image |
| Dialect | A way of speaking |
| Dialogue | Conversation between characters |
| Drama | Story written to be preformed |
| Essay | A short piece of nonfiction prose |
| Fable | A story to teach a moral |
| Fantasy | Imaginative writing |
| Fiction | A made up story |
| Figurative language | Language that is not literally true |
| Flashback | Scene that breaks normal time order |
| Folk Tale | Story with unknown author; passes from one generation to the next |
| Foreshadowing | Use of clues or hints |
| Free Verse | Poem that is free of regular rhyme scheme |
| Imagery | Language that apeals to the five sentences |
| Irony | Difference between what is real and unreal |
| Legend | Story based on historical fact; from one generation to the next |
| Limereck | Humorous five line verse |
| Main Idea | Most important idea |
| Metaphor | Comparison not using like or as |
| Mood | Overall emotion |
| Myth | Explains something about the word; involves god and superheros |
| Narration | Series of connected events |
| Novel | Long fictional story |
| Onomatapoeia | Imitation of sound turning into words |
| Oral Tradition | Collection of Folk Tales, Songs, Poems; from one generation to the next |
| Paraphrase | A Restatement |
| Personification | Giving nonliving things living characteristics |
| Plot | Related events that make up a story |
| Poetry | Writing that has rythm and uses figure of speech |
| Point of Veiw | The point in which the story os told |
| Prose | A writing that is not Poetry |
| Refrain | A repeated phrase,word, or line |
| Rhyme | A repation of all sounds |
| Rhythm | Musical Repation of stressted and unstressted sylables |
| Setting | The time and place of a story |
| Short Story | A fictional prose narrative |
| Simile | Comparrison between 2 things using like or as |
| Speaker | The voice talking to us in a poem |
| Stanza | A group that forms a unit |
| Suspense | Anxious curiosity of the reader |
| Symbol | Something thats stands for something |
| Tall Tale | Exaggerated fanciful story |
| Theme | Truth about life revealed in work |
| Tone | Attitude an author puts toward the readers in a book |
| Authors Purpose | To entertain audience |
| Cause and Effect | Reason something happens and the thing that follows it |
| Chronicalogical Order | To put things in order |
| Comparison and Contrast | similarities and differences |
| Context Clues | Clues to the meaning of a word |
| Evaluating Evidence | Support of Ideas |
| Evidence | Support of Proof |
| Fact or opinion | personal belief or true fact |
| Generaliazation | Statement particular situations |
| Graphic Features | Designs including graphs and maps |
| Inference | Educated Guess |
| Note Taking | Informational Texts |
| Outlining | Main Idea with Supporting Details |
| Persuasion | Trying and get something or someone to do something |
| Predicting | to make an guess |
| Prior Knowledge | What you know from previous education |
| Propaganda | Organized Attemp to persuade people |
