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1.Genre: a category in which a work of literature is classified. Major categories are fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and drama

2.Fiction: tells an imaginary story

3.Fable: a brief tale told to illustrate a moral or teach a lesson

4.Myth: a traditional story that attempts to answer basic questions about human nature, origins of the world, mysteries of nature, and social customs.

5.Legend: a story handed down from the past about a specific person, usually someone of heroic accomplishments

6.Tall Tale: a humorously exaggerated story about impossible events, often involving the supernatural abilities of the main character.

7.Folktale: a story that has been passed down from generation to generation by word of mouth. They may be set in the distant past and involve supernatural events.

8.Nonfiction: writing that tells about real people, places, and events. Written to convey factual information.

9.Drama: a form of literature meant to be performed by actors or read out loud in front of an audience. The character’s dialogue and actions tell the story.

10.Poetry: a type of literature in which words are carefully chosen and arranged to create certain effects.

11.Act: a major division within a play, similar to a chapter in a book.

12. Scene: an episode of the play’s plot

13.Stage direction: the instructions to the actors, directors, and stage crew.

14.Dialogue: written conversation between two or more characters. It is the primary way stories are told in drama.

15.Monitor: checking your comprehension as you read. It includes questioning, clarifying, visualizing, predicting, connecting, and rereading.

16.Inferences: a logical guess that is made based on facts and one’s own knowledge and experience.

17.Connect: relating the content of a text to your own knowledge and experience. Text to text, text to self, & text to world.

18.Clarify: a strategy to help understand or make clear what is being read.

19.Recall: remember something

20.Evaluate: to examine something carefully and to judge its value or worth. Forming an opinion about the value of an entire work.

21.Predict: making a reasonable guess about what will happen next.

22.Visualize: forming a mental picture based on the written or spoken information.

23.Summarize: briefly retell the main ideas of a piece

24.Cause: an event that makes another event happen

25.Effect: an event that is the result of another even

26.Contrast: to identify differences

27.Compare: to identify similarities

28.Analyze: to study or examine something carefully

29. Synthesize: putting together facts, details, and ideas from different sources

30. Purpose: reason for reading a text. Looking at the text’s title, headings, and illustrations to guess what it might be about.

31. Chronological Order: the arrangement of events by their order of occurrence.

32.Main idea: central or most important idea about a topic that a writer or speaker conveys. It may be suggested by the details.

33.Details: gives more information events, reasons, facts, statistics, examples, or statements from experts used by the author to support the main idea.

34.Writing Process: prewriting, drafting, revising & editing, publishing

35.Author’s Purpose: the reason for the writing: to express thoughts or feelings, to inform or explain, to persuade, or to entertain

36.Organization: ways ideas and information are arranged and organized

37.Sequence: a pattern of organization that shows the order of steps or stages in the process

38.Text features: elements of a text that helps call attention to important information.

39.Medium: the format in which ideas are conveyed.

40.Message: an idea conveyed through the medium.

41.Target audience: the group to which a message is directed.

42.Biography: a true account of a person’s life, written by another person.

43.Autobiography: a writer’s account of his or her life.

44.Memoir: a form of autobiographical writing in which a writer shares his or her personal experiences and observations of important events or people.

45.Primary source: materials created by people who witnessed or took part in the event.

46.Secondary Source: materials created by people who were not directly involved in the event.

47. Fact: a provable statement.

48. Opinion: a statement that cannot be proven.

49. Argument: a claim.

50. Persuasive techniques: devices that convince a reader to take action or adopt an idea.

51. Characterization: the way a writer created and develops a character.

52. Universal Theme: themes that are found throughout literature of all time periods.

53. Theme: a message about life or human nature that the writer shares with the reader.

54. Setting: the time and place of the action.

55. Character: the people, animals, or imaginary creatures who take part in the action of a work of literature.

56. Conflict: a struggle between opposing forces

57. Internal Conflict: a struggle that occurs within a character.

58. External Conflict: a character struggles against a force outside himself: another character or a physical object.

59. Plot: the series of events in a story. It centers on the conflict, or struggle faced by the main character.

60. Cultural values: ideas and beliefs that are honored by that culture.

61. Cultural values: ideas and beliefs that are honored by that culture.

62. Foreshadowing: when a writer provides hints that suggest future events in a story.

63. Symbolism: a person, place, object or activity that stands for something beyond itself.

64. Parody: a humorous imitation of another writer’s piece of work.

65. Humor: provokes laughter or amusement.

66. Point of View: how a narrator chooses to narrate a story. A writer’s choice of words affects the information readers receive.

67. 1st Person: the narrator writes from the character’s point of view.

68. 3rd Person: the narrator is not a character.

69. Dialogue: written conversation between two or more characters

70. Form: the way a poem looks on the page, with its shape and number of lines

71. Line: a single word, a sentence, or a part of a sentence in a poem.

72. Stanza: a group of two or more lines that form a unit in a poem.

73. Rhythm: a pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line of poetry.

74. Rhyme: the repetition of sounds at the end of words

75. Repetition: a technique in which a sound, word, phrases, or line is repeated for emphasis or unity.

76. Alliteration: the repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words (ex. The woods are deviously dark and deep.)

77. Simile: a figure of speech that makes a comparison between two unlike items using the words like or as. (ex. As bright as the sun)

78. Metaphor: the comparison of two things without using the words like or as (Her smile was snow white.)

79. Figurative Language: words are used in an imaginative way to express ideas that are not literally true.

80. Paraphrase: restating of information in one’s own words.

81. Sound device: ways of using words for the sound qualities they create.

82. Narrative poetry: poetry that tells a story.

83. Personification: giving human like qualities to an animal, object, or idea.

84. Mood: feeling or atmosphere that a writer creates for the reader.

85. Tone: the attitude of the author towards the subject.

86. Sensory language/ Imagery: words or phrase that appeals to the reader’s senses (sight, hearing, touch, smell, & taste.)

87. Onomatopoeia: the use of words that sound like their meaning (tick tock)

88. Haiku: Japanese poetry - arranged in 3 lines of syllables.

89. Free Verse: does not contain regular patterns of rhythm, rhyme, or line length.

90. Limerick: a short five-line poem about something silly or lighthearted.

1.a category in which a work of literature is classified. Major categories are fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and drama

2.tells an imaginary story

3.a brief tale told to illustrate a moral or teach a lesson

4.a traditional story that attempts to answer basic questions about human nature, origins of the world, mysteries of nature, and social customs.

5.a story handed down from the past about a specific person, usually someone of heroic accomplishments

6.a humorously exaggerated story about impossible events, often involving the supernatural abilities of the main character.

7.a story that has been passed down from generation to generation by word of mouth. They may be set in the distant past and involve supernatural events.

8.writing that tells about real people, places, and events. Written to convey factual information.

9.a form of literature meant to be performed by actors or read out loud in front of an audience. The character’s dialogue and actions tell the story.

10.a type of literature in which words are carefully chosen and arranged to create certain effects.

11.a major division within a play, similar to a chapter in a book.

12. an episode of the play’s plot.

13.the instructions to the actors, directors, and stage crew.

14.written conversation between two or more characters. It is the primary way stories are told in drama.

15.checking your comprehension as you read. It includes questioning, clarifying, visualizing, predicting, connecting, and rereading.

16.a logical guess that is made based on facts and one’s own knowledge and experience.

17.relating the content of a text to your own knowledge and experience. Text to text, text to self, & text to world.

18.a strategy to help understand or make clear what is being read.

19.remember something.

20.to examine something carefully and to judge its value or worth. Forming an opinion about the value of an entire work.

21.making a reasonable guess about what will happen next.

22.forming a mental picture based on the written or spoken information.

23. briefly retell the main ideas of a piece.

24.an event that makes another event happen.

25.an event that is the result of another even.

26.to identify differences.

27.to identify similarities.

28.to study or examine something carefully.

29. putting together facts, details, and ideas from different sources.

30. reason for reading a text. Looking at the text’s title, headings, and illustrations to guess what it might be about.

31. the arrangement of events by their order of occurrence.

32.central or most important idea about a topic that a writer or speaker conveys. It may be suggested by the details.

33.gives more information events, reasons, facts, statistics, examples, or statements from experts used by the author to support the main idea.

34.prewriting, drafting, revising & editing, publishing.

35.the reason for the writing: to express thoughts or feelings, to inform or explain, to persuade, or to entertain

36.ways ideas and information are arranged and organized

37.a pattern of organization that shows the order of steps or stages in the process

38.elements of a text that helps call attention to important information.

39.the format in which ideas are conveyed.

40. an idea conveyed through the medium.

41.Target audience: the group to which a message is directed.

42.a true account of a person’s life, written by another person.

43.a writer’s account of his or her life.

44.a form of autobiographical writing in which a writer shares his or her personal experiences and observations of important events or people.

45.materials created by people who witnessed or took part in the event.

46.materials created by people who were not directly involved in the event.

47. a provable statement.

48. a statement that cannot be proven.

49. a claim.

50. devices that convince a reader to take action or adopt an idea.

51. the way a writer created and develops a character.

52. themes that are found throughout literature of all time periods.

53. a message about life or human nature that the writer shares with the reader.

54. the time and place of the action.

55. the people, animals, or imaginary creatures who take part in the action of a work of literature.

56. a struggle between opposing forces

57. a struggle that occurs within a character.

58. a character struggles against a force outside himself: another character or a physical object.

59. the series of events in a story. It centers on the conflict, or struggle faced by the main character.

60. ideas and beliefs that are honored by that culture.

61. ideas and beliefs that are honored by that culture.

62. when a writer provides hints that suggest future events in a story.

63. a person, place, object or activity that stands for something beyond itself.

64. a humorous imitation of another writer’s piece of work.

65. provokes laughter or amusement.

66. how a narrator chooses to narrate a story. A writer’s choice of words affects the information readers receive.

67. the narrator writes from the character’s point of view.

68. the narrator is not a character.

69. written conversation between two or more characters

70. the way a poem looks on the page, with its shape and number of lines

71. a single word, a sentence, or a part of a sentence in a poem.

72. a group of two or more lines that form a unit in a poem.

73. a pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line of poetry.

74. the repetition of sounds at the end of words

75. a technique in which a sound, word, phrases, or line is repeated for emphasis or unity.

76. the repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words (ex. The woods are deviously dark and deep.)

77. a figure of speech that makes a comparison between two unlike items using the words like or as. (ex. As bright as the sun)

78. the comparison of two things without using the words like or as (Her smile was snow white.)

79. words are used in an imaginative way to express ideas that are not literally true.

80. restating of information in one’s own words.

81. ways of using words for the sound qualities they create.

82. poetry that tells a story.

83. giving human like qualities to an animal, object, or idea.

84. feeling or atmosphere that a writer creates for the reader.

85. the attitude of the author towards the subject.

86. words or phrase that appeals to the reader’s senses (sight, hearing, touch, smell, & taste.)

87. the use of words that sound like their meaning (tick tock)

88. Japanese poetry - arranged in 3 lines of syllables.

89. does not contain regular patterns of rhythm, rhyme, or line length.

90. a short five-line poem about something silly or light hearted.

1.Genre:

2.Fiction:

3.Fable:

4.Myth

5.Legend:

6.Tall Tale:

7.Folktale

8.Nonfiction

9.Drama:

10.Poetry:

11.Act

12. Scene

13.Stage direction

14.Dialogue

15.Monitor

16.Inferences

17.Connect

18.Clarify

19.Recall

20.Evaluate

21.Predict

22.Visualize

23.Summarize

24.Cause

25.Effect

26.Contrast

27.Compare

28.Analyze

29. Synthesize

30. Purpose

31. Chronological Order

32.Main idea

33.Details

34.Writing Process

35.Author’s Purpose

36.Organization

37.Sequence

38.Text features

39.Medium

40.Message

41.Target audience

42.Biography

43.Autobiography

44.Memoir

45.Primary source

46.Secondary Source

47. Fact

48. Opinion

49. Argument

50. Persuasive techniques

51. Characterization

52. Universal Theme

53. Theme

54. Setting

55. Character

56. Conflict

57. Internal Conflict

58. External Conflict

59. Plot

60. Cultural values

61. Cultural values

62. Foreshadowing

63. Symbolism

64. Parody

65. Humor

66. Point of View

67. 1st Person

68. 3rd Person

69. Dialogue

70. Form

71. Line

72. Stanza

73. Rhythm

74. Rhyme

75. Repetition

76. Alliteration

77. Simile

78. Metaphor

79. Figurative Language

80. Paraphrase

81. Sound device

82. Narrative poetry

83. Personification

84. Mood

85. Tone

86. Sensory language/ Imagery

87. Onomatopoeia

88. Haiku

89. Free Verse

90. Limerick