FSA Reading Vocab 6th Grade

Non-fiction text, written primarily to convey factual information

Conversation between characters

When the main character overcomes obstacles or challenges in a story

Point of view that presents the the events of a story from the outside of any single characters

Problem in the character's mind

The story of a person's life written by himself or herself

The feeling a word gives a the reader

The feelings or attitude of the author coming through the text

Same sounds at the beginning of the words (Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers)

A big exaggeration to emphasize something (I'm starving)

The overall point the author is making

To highlight or stress the importance of

Method used by the author to give readers information about a character

The use of clues to give readers a hint of events that will occur later on

A personal point of view or belief

How the text makes the reader feel

Piece of information that can be proven

Describes how things are alike and different

Words with similar meanings

A device in literature where an object represents an idea (example: $, #)

Type of writing that tells a story

Category used to classify literary works, usually by form, technique, or content

Figure of speech in which non-human things are given human characteristics

Events that are in order from then they occurred

Moment in a story when the action reaches its greatest conflict

Any story that is the product of imagination rather than fact

The information in the text to understand a word or phrase

The use of words to express the opposite of their literal meaning

Form of a noun or pronoun that indicates "belonging to" for singular nouns

Repetition of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line of poetry

The character who tells the story

An objective summary

The perspective from which the story is told

Figure of speech that compares two things without the use of like or as

Fiction represented in a setting true to the history of the time in which the story takes place

Events in a story that are told by a single character from their point of view

Describes a situation then tells what happened because of it

To examine or judge carefully

Words that sound the way they are spelled (pop, buzz)

Description of one thing in terms usually used for something else

Word to which prefixes and suffixes can be added to form different words

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An expression that has a meaning different from its literal words (I'm on top of the world)

Words with opposite meanings

The message or lesson to be learned

The first thing you do when the FSA starts

The insertion of an earlier event into the normal chronological sequence of a narrative

Main source of drama in a literary work

A conclusion we can draw on our own, based on information in the text

Story of a person's life written by someone other than the subject of the work