| A | B |
|---|
| buoyant | to float |
| sullenly | to act with anger and unwillingness, grumpy |
| conscientiously | to think about the results of one's actions |
| beseech | to ask, beg, or plead |
| imminent | to be happening immeaditley, impossible to stop |
| looming | to hang over or next to, usually a problem |
| metaphor | a comparison of two things |
| simile | Andrew is like a wolverine |
| theme | the lesson learned from a story |
| narrator | the person who is telling the story |
| speaker | "This bowl of porridge is too hot. This bow is too cold, but this bowl is just right." |
| character | Bambi, Thumper, Mulan, the Genie, the 7 Dwarves |
| sensory details | a description using at least 1 of your 5 senses |
| subject | the main topic of the story |
| main character | the person or animal that does the most in the story |
| hero | Luke Skywalker, Bambi, Lindsey Lohan in Mean Girls, Edward in New Moon |
| figures of speech | a creative, intersting use of words, phrases, or sentences |
| rhyme | ball, fall, tall, call, mall, small |
| sight ryhme | height, weight |
| rhyme scheme | the pattern of rhyming words in a poem |
