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| Theme | In literary text, what the writer wants you to remember the most (larger abstract ideas) |
| Paraphrase | To use your own words to tell what you've read, heard, or seen; a strategy that can help you make sense of the information needed. |
| Character | A person or animal represented in or acting in a story, poem, or drama. |
| Plot | The action or sequence of events in a story. |
| Figurative language | Language enriched by word meanings and figures of speech (i.e., similes, metaphors, personification, hyperbole) |
| Tone | An author's attitude toward the characters and events in the story. |
| Onomatopoeia | The use of a word whose sound suggests its meaning (i.e., buzz) |
| Personification | A form of metaphor in which animals, ideas, things, etc., are represented as having human qualities (i.e., The drums were weeping today.) |
| Plausibility | If something is reasonable |
| Setting | The physical background, time, and location, against which the action in a story takes place. |
| Alliteration | The repetition of the same consonant sound at the beginning of two or more words of a sentence or line of poetry (i.e., Waves want to be wheels...) |
| Simile | A figure of speech that makes a comparison of two things that are not alike, usually using the words, like or as (i.e., brown as fruitwood, thin as a curve) |
| Haiku | A type of Japanese poetry about nature that is three lines long. The first line is five syllables, the second line is seven syllables, and the third line is five syllables long. |
| Analyze | To examine, closely study, and evaluate in order to better understand |
| Base word | A word to which a prefix or suffix may be added to create related words (i.e., hemisphere, coauthor) |
| Compound word | A combination of two or more words that function as a single unit of meaning, such as "barefoot" |
| Graphic organizer | Visual representations of information used for constructing meaning in reading, writing, and speaking |
| Hypertext | An online feature that provides network links between key elements, allowing you to move through electronic information non-sequentially |
| Point of view | The author's choice of narrator for a story. this choice determines the amount of information a reader will be given, as well as the angle from which this information will be presented. |
| Narrative text | A story/description of events |
| Mood | The emotional atmosphere expressed by an author in his/her work; the dominant impression of the feelings of the listener, observer, or reader |
| Drama | A written story meant to be acted out on stage |
| Message | In an informational text, what the writer wants you to remember the most |
