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| Fiction | literary work that is a product of the imagination with a purpose to entertain. Examples: novels, short stories, and plays. |
| Theme | the central or universal idea of a piece of fiction or the main idea of a nonfiction essay |
| Genre | the type or class of a work, usually categorized by form, technique, or content |
| Poetry | one of the oldest forms of literature which is made to be read aloud and is often composed for songs and verse. |
| Drama or Play | is a story that is written to be acted out on stage with dialogue of the characters and how the actors should recite their lines, the stage should be set and actors move. |
| Sensory Language | language that appeals to one or more of the five senses: sight, sound, |
| Literary Nonfiction | works based on fact, meant to inform, examine, explain, argue, or persuade. Examples: diaries, journals, histories, biographies, and news stories. |
| drawing conclusions | a form of inference in which the reader gathers information, considers the general thoughts or |
| point of view | the perspective from which the events in the story are told |
| plot | the basic sequence of events in a story |
| preposition | a word that relates its object to another word in the sentence (e.g., at in at school or of in of your |
| prepositional phrase | a phrase that begins with a preposition and is followed by an object (e.g., on the road and by her) |
| Sensory Language | words an author uses to help the reader experience the sense elements of the story |
| thematic link | a logical connection made between or among texts that share similar themes |
| Analogy I | a vocabulary exercise in which an association between a concept and its attribute is present |
| Analogy II | figurative language that makes comparisons in unexpected ways |
| Prepositions and Prepositional Phrases | convey location, time, direction, or to provide details; |
| setting | the time and place in which a narrative occurs |
| autobiography | the life story of a person, as told by himself or herself |
| biography | the life story of a person, told by someone other than the person of focus |
| conflict | in literature, the opposition of persons or forces that brings about dramatic action central to the plot of a story. may be internal, as a psychological conflict within a character, or external (e.g., man versus man, man versus nature, or man versus society). |
| idiom | an expression that has a different meaning from the literal meaning of its individual words (e.g., have the upper hand or under the weather) |
| mood | the atmosphere or feeling created by the writer in a literary work or passage |
| procedural text | a type of informational text that is written with the intent to explain the steps in a procedure, as in a recipe |
| purpose | the intended goal of a piece of writing; the reason a person writes |
| rhyme scheme | the pattern of rhyming lines (e.g., ABAB, ABBA) |
| script | 1. a written version of the speech and actions of performers, as in a play or film |
| sensory detail | a detail in writing that describes what is seen, heard, smelled, tasted, or touched |
| sensory language | is language that appeals to one or more of the five senses: sight, sound, touch, smell, and taste. |
| simile | a comparison of two things that are essentially different, usually using the words like or as (e.g., O my love is like a red, red rose from Robert Burns’s “A Red, Red Rose”) |
| theme | the central or universal idea of a piece of fiction or the main idea of a nonfiction essay |
| word choice | the author’s thoughtful use of precise vocabulary to fully convey meaning to the reader |
