| A | B |
|---|
| Inference | a conclusion we draw from information we have |
| prediction | a guess about what will happen next based on what has already happened |
| setting | the time and place of a story |
| mood | the state of mind or emotion the writer creates through a story |
| plot | a series of events that are unfolded throughout the story |
| conflict | struggle found in fiction |
| internal conflict | stuggle that takes place inside one's self |
| external conflict | struggle against an outside force |
| reselution | how the conflict was resolved |
| point of view | the attitude or outlook of a narrator or character |
| 1st person | story that is told from the point of view "I" |
| 2nd person | narrator speaks directly to the reader |
| 3rd person | narrator sounds like the author |
| author's purpose | why the author chose to write the story |
| main idea | tells what the the paragraph or passage is goin to be about |
| supporting idea | details that tell about and support the main idea |
| sequence | order in which events happen |
| cause | action or event that makes something else happen |
| effect | what ahppens because of a certain action or event |
| compare | to think about ways in which things are alike |
| contrast | to think about ways in which things are different |
| biography | the story of a person's life written by another person |
| autobiography | the story of a person's life written by that person |
| prose | ordinary language in speaking and writing |
| fiction | prose narrative words of the imagination including novels and short stories |
| nonfiction | real things that happen no imagination |
| stanzas | a group of lines forming a unit in a poem |
| essay | a composition on one particular subject |
| context clues | clues that help you figure out the meaning of a word by the words around it |
| suspense | the growing interest as the plot reaches its climax |
| foreshadowing | the use of clues to prepare readers for future events |
| short story | fictional events written to prose paragraphs |
| drama | play or story performed on stage |
| playwrights | authors of plays |
| dialogue | conversation between characters |
| flashback | a scene that breaks the normal time order to show events in the past |
| character traits | different qualities of a character's personality |
| analogies | comparisons stated in double relationships |
| literary criticisim | writing that analyzes an author's work |
| fable | to write of speak fiction (unture stores about legendary peaple) |
| folktale | a sotry or legend forming part of an oral tradition |
| mystery | a work of fiction a drama or a film dealing with a puzzling crime |
| myth | a fictitious story, person, or thing |
| tall tale | an improbible story (on that ins unusual incredible or fanciful |
| limerick | a humerous verse of five lines with a rhyme scheme of aabba |
| alliteration | the repitition of the same sounds or of the same kind of sounds at the beginning of words or stressed in syllables |
| metaphor | a figure of speech in which a word or phrase that usually means one thing is used to mean another |
| simile | when to unlike things are compared using like or as |
| onomatopoeia | the use of words to imitate the sounds associated with the objects or actions they refer to (buzz, boom, tick tock) |
