| A | B |
|---|
| Fable | a short story using animals to teach a lesson |
| Oral Tradition | stories passed down by mouth |
| Direct Characterization | the writer tells about the character |
| Simile | compares using like or as |
| personification | when a nonhuman subject is described like a human |
| theme | a central idea or concern in a work, a lesson or moral |
| interjections | a part of speech that exclaims or expresses a feeling |
| active voice | when the subject of a sentence does the action. Does not use was. |
| stanzas | multiple lines that make up a unit of meaning in a poem |
| rhyme | a repetition of sound |
| rhythm | the pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in a poem, a pattern of sound |
| paraphrase | to retell in your own words |
| summarize | to tell in shorter form |
| setting | the time and place of the action of the story |
| compare | shows how things are alike |
| contrast | shows how things are different |
