personifcation | | use information given to draw a conclusion |
simile | | set a purpose for reading, an overview |
understatement | | where and when a story takes place |
hyperbole | | causes problems for the good guy |
alliteration | | exaggerating facts or importance |
allusion | | person who tells the story |
euphemism | | represents information in a specific way |
foreshadowing | | how are things alike |
idiom | | comparison using like or ask |
metaphor | | refering to something in history or mythology |
onomatopoeia | | tells you where to find information in a book |
parallelism | | identifies key topics by page they start on |
revise | | good guy in a story |
sequence | | order of events |
compare | | the feeling a reader gets from a story |
contrast | | angle or vantage point from which a story is told |
infer | | word formed by imitating natural sounds |
protagonist | | authros attitude towards the subject emotion she wants to convey |
antagonist | | comparing without like or as |
setting | | shows direction |
dialouge | | an expressing with accepted meaning |
narrator | | conversation between two or mor characters |
point of view | | rewrite for clarity |
flashback | | how are things different |
tone | | use of corresponding syntax and grammar forms |
mood | | making something less important |
theme | | part of a book where terms are defined |
glossary | | the main idea or point the authro wants to make |
text features | | a less offensive way to say something |
compass rose | | bold face, italics, bullets etc |
preface | | repeating initial sounds |
index | | break in the story to introduce information from the past |
table of contents | | giving hints of what is to come in a story |
graphic aides | | giving non human things human qualities |