| A | B | 
| Active Voice | This is used when the subject of a sentence performs the action. | 
| Advertisement | This is a public announcement promoting a product or service. | 
| Analogy | This is a comparison based on a similarity between things that are otherwise dissimilar. | 
| Anecdote | This is a brief story about an interesting incident. | 
| Cause And Effect | This is the relationship between two or more events in which one event brings about another. | 
| Connotation | This is the emotional feelings and associations that go beyond the dictionary definition of a word. | 
| Context Clues | These are in the text surrounding a word and give hints for the meaning of the word. | 
| Critique | This is a written or spoken evaluation of what is and is not effective in a literary work. | 
| Denotation | This is the dictionary definition of a word. | 
| Dialogue | These are the words spoken by characters in a literary work. | 
| Diction | This is the writer's choice of words, including the vocabulary used, the appropriateness of the words, and the vividness of the language. | 
| Editorial | This is an article in a publication or a commentary on television or radio expressing the opinion of its editors, publishers, station, or network. | 
| Essay | This is a short, nonfiction work about a particular subject. | 
| Fact | This is a statement that can be proved to be true. | 
| Fluency | This is the ability to speak, read, or write a language; automatic word recognition, decoding, and checking for meaning. | 
| Implied Meaning | This is a suggested, but not stated, definition. | 
| Inference | This is reading between the lines. It is taking something that you read and putting it together with something that you already know to make sense of what you read. | 
| Media | This is the main means of mass communication. | 
| Monologue | This is a long, uninterrupted speech by a character in a play, story, or poem. | 
| Mood | This is the feeling that an author wants readers to have while reading. | 
| Novel | This is a long work of fiction. It has a complicated plot, many characters, a significant theme, and varied settings. | 
| Opinion | This is a statement that reflects a writer's belief about a topic , and it cannot be proved. | 
| Paraphrase | This is the restatement of a written work in one's own words that keeps the basic meaning of the original work. | 
| Passive Voice | This is used when the subject of a sentence receives the action instead of doing it. | 
| Point Of View | This is the perspective from which a story is told. | 
| Short Story | This is a brief work of fiction. It resembles a novel but his a simpler plot and setting and fewer characters. | 
| Speech | This is a talk or public address. | 
| Strategy | This is any kind of mental action used by a student to comprehend and make meaning out of a reading text. | 
| Style | This is the way an author expresses ideas through the use of kinds of words, literary devices, and sentence structure. | 
| Text | This is the main body of a piece of writing or any of the various forms in which writing exists, such as a book, a poem, an article, or a short story. | 
| Theme | This is the message, usually about life or society, that an author wishes to convey through a literary work. | 
| Tone | This is the attitude that an author takes toward the audience, the subject, or a character. | 
| Transcript | This documentation is the record in printed form of what was said. |