| A | B |
| stanza | a group of lines in a poem / like a paragraph in a poem |
| dialogue | when characters in a written work speak / should have quotation marks " " |
| non-fiction | a reading that is true |
| theme | what the whole thing (reading) is about |
| compare | describe how things are the same |
| contrast | describe how things are different |
| infer / inference | making a good guess about why something happened based on what you know |
| generalization | reasonable judgment |
| persuade | convince reader |
| evidence | provides proof |
| authors purpose | why the auther chose that |
| opinion | one person's thought |
| main idea | what the whole thing is about |
| plot | events that happen in a story |
| theme | idea |
| mood | how the writing makes you feel |
| fiction | not real |
| non-fiction | real |
| infer | smart guess |
| compare | to see how two or more things are the same |
| contrast | to see how 2 or more things are different |
| biography | a story about a real person written by someone else |
| autobiography | a story a person writes about themselves |
| speaker | the person who is telling the story |
| inform | the author's purpose is to give factual information |
| verify | to check if something is accurate or correct |
| stanza | a group of lines in a poem / like a paragraph in a poem |
| dialogue | when characters in a written work speak / should have quotation marks " " |
| non-fiction | a reading that is true |
| theme | what the whole thing (reading) is about |
| infer / inference | making a good guess about why something happened based on what you know |
| first person | a person in a story who is telling the story (uses I, me, myself) |
| third person | the person telling the story is not a character in the story |
| setting | where and when a story happens |
| conflict | the problem in a story |
| climax | the most exciting part of a story ususally just before the end when the problem is solved |
| solution | how the problem in a story is solved |