1. READING
Terms
Mrs. Dodge: Grade 6

2. The moment in a story after tension builds and the conflict is most intense.

3. CLIMAX

4. The part of the story that comes after the climax, when the conflict is resolved.

5. RESOLUTION

6. A group of neighboring words that begin with the same sound.

7. ALLITERATION

8. Comparing two unlike things using the words “like” or “as”.

9. SIMILE

10. Comparing two unlike things without “like” or “as:.

11. METAPHOR

12. The major idea or lesson that is the topic of discussion or writing.

13. THEME

14. The position from which a story is told.

15. POINT OF VIEW

16. A broad statement about a topic or person.

17. GENERALIZATION

18. Type of text that tells a story.

19. NARRATIVE

20. A nonfiction text, written to share factual information.

21. INFORMATIONAL
TEXT

22. Giving human qualities, feelings, actions, to something not human.

23. PERSONIFICATION

24. A type or category of literature.

25. GENRE

26. A word or phrase in bold print that shows the text’s topic or theme.

27. HEADING

28. A conclusion based on facts, reasoning, and “reading between the lines”.

29. INFERENCE

30. To tell the most important parts of a text in a much shorter space, and in your own words.

31. SUMMARIZE