5th Grade Vocab

An important lesson that teaches the reader about right and wrong.

Clues in the text that help the reader figure out the meaning of an unknown word.

Poetry that does NOT contain patterns of rhythm or rhyme.

Give the wrong idea; to lead someone in the wrong direction.

The story of a person's life written by that person in first person point of view.

giving human qualities to non-human things.

Small text found near a picture that provides important information about the picture.

What a piece of writing is mainly about.

When a portion of the story goes back in time.

The reason the author has for writing.

True or false? A drama is NOT a story written to be performed by actors.

The events that make up a fictional story.

The repeating of consonant at the beginning of words.

The perspective from which a story is told.

A drawing that shows or explains something...usually includes labels and captions.

The narrator focuses on the thoughts and feelings of only one character.

True or False? A metaphor is a comparison of 2 things WITHOUT using "like" or "as".

Are you going to do AWESOME on the AZMERIT tests?

A beginning or coming into being.

To prove; to show that something is right; to defend with reasons.

The story of a person's life written by someone else using third person point of view.

Writing that is true. Describes people and places that are "real".

When an author uses clues to help the reader to figure out what events will happen later.

The problem in the story.

A type of writing that tells "how to" do something.

The repeated message in a text that helps the reader understand more about life or behavior.

When a reader uses clues from the text plus what they already know to draw a conclusion.

Characteristics of a particular group of people. 

True or false? A phenomenon is an event which CANNOT be seen or written about.

How the problem is solved or fixed; the ending or final outcome of the story.

To say that something is larger or greater than it really is. Stretching the truth.

To tell.

A conversation between two characters in a story.

An extreme exaggeration.

Told from the viewpoint of the characters using the pronouns "I", "me", "my", and "we".

The turning point in the action of a story; the most exciting point of the story.

Told by an all-knowing narrator from outside the story who reveals what every character thinks.

An expression with a meaning different from the literal meaning of the individual words.

A fictional story that used supernatural beings to teach a moral or explain natural phenomena.

Comparing two things by using the words "like" or "as".

An event that comes after and is caused by some previous event.

Drawings or photographs that help explain what is going on in the text.

A resource used to find a list of a word's synonyms and antonyms.

To disagree; to say the opposite.

To get in the way of...

To influence

A type of writing used to convince the reader of the author's point of view.

True or False? Fiction is a type of writing based on the imagination and not necessarily fact.

Where and when the story takes place.

A type of literature.