| A | B |
| biography | Story of a real person's life written by another person |
| autobiography | Story about a real person's life written by that person |
| concrete noun | A noun that you can touch, hear, smell, taste, or see |
| abstract noun | A noun that denotes an idea, feeling, quality or other intangible concept |
| common noun | A person, place, thing or idea. It is not capitalized. |
| proper noun | Name of a particular person, place or thing. It is capitalized. |
| context clue | Information that appears near a word or phrase and offers direct or indirect suggestions about its meaning |
| tone | The author's attitude, stated or implied, toward a subject |
| mood | The climate of feeling in a literary work |
| first person point of view | The narrator is a character in the story. The pronouns I, me, and my are used. |
| third person-limited point of view | The narrator is an outsider who sees into the mind of one of the characters |
| third person omniscient point of view | The narrator is an all-knowing outsider who can enter the minds of more than one character |