| 1st Person Point of View | | What the text is mainly about; the central idea |
| 3rd Person Point of View | | Words that have similar meanings vs. words with opposite meanings |
| Fact vs. Opinion | | Making the reader think that everyone is doing it, so you should hurry up and do it too |
| Inference | | A conversation between people set off in quotes |
| Flashback vs Foreshadowing | | Using prior knowledge and evidence from the text to make a logical guess |
| Analogy | | When and where a story takes place. |
| Cause and Effect | | Statements that can be proven vs. a writer's belief |
| Author's Purpose - Description | | The author shows how things are similar and different |
| Author's Purpose - Compare and Contrast | | A statement that will apply to everything. |
| Author's Purpose - Problem / Solution | | A word that makes a sound |
| Sequence | | The point of the greatest interest or suspense; the changing point |
| Dialogue | | Additional information about the main idea |
| Narration | | The emotional effect a poem or story has on the reader |
| Figurative vs. Literal Language | | An interruption of the action to view the past vs. the writer providing hints that suggest the future |
| Simile | | The author presents information; textbooks |
| Metaphor | | A very exaggerated, unbelievable made-up story |
| Idiom | | The narrator is not a character in the story; uses he, she, they |
| Personification | | A story that teaches a life lesson |
| Hyperbole | | When words don't mean what they say vs. words that mean exactly what they say |
| Onomatopoeia | | The lesson(s) learned after reading in a literary work |
| Alliteration | | A story passed down over many generations often including animals |
| Synonyms vs. Antonyms | | Begins after the exposition; the conflict is introduced |
| Main Idea | | The beginning of a story when the characters and setting are introduced |
| Supporting Details | | A made-up story that seems very real |
| Plot | | A made-up story usually about future things such as outer space, aliens |
| Exposition | | Occurs after the climax when the the reader begins to put the pieces together |
| Rising Action | | The problem of the story. |
| Climax | | Making something nonhuman take on human qualities |
| Falling Action | | A story that is short enough to read in one setting and revolves around a single event vs. a much longer and complex story |
| Resolution | | The event that happens first leading to something else happening |
| Conflict | | Persuading others by causing them to feel sadness, empathy, or humor. |
| Static Character | | The act of telling a story. |
| Dynamic Character | | The ways advertisers try to persuade large numbers of people |
| Setting | | The author uses words to create a picture by appealing to the reader's senses |
| Theme | | When several words begin with the same consonant sound |
| Context Clues | | Using numbers and graphs to persuade others |
| Mood | | The end of a story; the problem is solved; |
| Technical Text | | Using flowery words to make something seem better than it is |
| Persuasive Text | | Understanding the meaning of words by the clues the writer provides in the text. |
| Expository Text | | The author provides the reader solutions to problems |
| Narrative Text | | A character that does change. |
| Fiction vs. Nonfiction | | A made-up story vs. a story that is real |
| Realistic Fiction | | The narrator is a character in the story; uses I, me, we, us |
| Science Fiction | | A true story of a person's life told by another person vs. a true story of a person's life told by the person |
| Historical Fiction | | An extreme exaggeration, often humorous |
| Folktale | | Persuading others by showing that something works for regular people so it would for me too |
| Tall Tale | | The author tries to convince the reader to do something or believe something |
| Fable | | Events in order chronologically |
| Biography vs. Autobiography | | Text written in verses not in complete sentences following a pattern; may or may not rhyme |
| Generalization | | Comparing two things using like or as |
| Poem | | When a famous person or expert endorses a product |
| Short Story vs. Novel | | A made-up story that is based around a real historical event. |
| Propaganda | | The author tells how to perform a task; recipes, instructions |
| Glittering Generalities | | Comparing two things without using like or as |
| Testimonials | | The events of a story in order from the beginning to the end |
| Statistics | | The author tells a story with the purpose of entertaining the reader |
| Bandwagon | | A character that doesn't change. |
| Appeal to Emotions | | two things that are alike therefore two other things are alike |
| Plain Folk | | An expression that means something different than what it says |
