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The people (or people like characters) in a story.

Reference that is at the back of a book and lists pages where a term can be found

Time and place.  Where and when a story takes place.

An expressive form of writing that uses rhyme, meter with sound devices and figurative language

A genre.  May involve time travel, super powers, machines or animals with human like qualities

Nonfiction text structure that gives similarities and differences.

A genre.  A story of a real person's life written by that person

Example:  Nine new nickels are needed now.

The part of the story when various problems start to happen

The subject or message being written about.

A genre.  The story of a real person's life written by another person.

Comparing two things using like or as

Comparison of two pairs that have the same relationship.  a is to b as c is to d

The way an author organizes text

A familiar phrase or saying that means something other than what it literally says.

I'm so hungry I could eat a horse.

When the character solves the problem in the story

A genre that blends the past with fiction.  May include events, people, and facts from the past

A word that sounds like what it is describing.  A sound effect

A genre.  A made up story that could happen in real life.

A reference that gives definitions, pronunciations, and context clues

It is a genre.  It is fiction and has a moral or teaches a lesson. 

Nonfiction text structure that includes an issue and ways of dealing with it.

Giving human characteristics to an idea, object, or animal

The text structure that authors use when they want to tell events in time order.

It's raining cats and dogs.

Talking between characters in a story

A saying that gives advice          Ex. Don't judge a book by its cover.  

A type of literature organized by lines and stanzas

My hands are icicles

Genre of fiction that may have unreal worlds, farfetched characters, & impossible situations

The feeling a reader gets from a story

The person telling the story is the main character.  Contains words like "I", "me", "we"

The repetition of the same letter at the beginning of two or more words

The text structure that many authors use when writing a biography.

great exaggeration

Murmur, creak, drip, pop, zip, wheeze

When the author goes back in the story to an earlier time.

The person or character who is telling the story

Comparing two things without using like or as.

A type of literature that is written in dialogue and has acts and scenes

The darkness wrapped its arms around me.

Using words to create a special effect

The milk was as white as snow

diagrams, charts, graphs, sidebars, glossary, cutaway diagrams, photos, captions, headings, 

The hero of the story

Reference that gives synonyms for words.  Helpful when writing.

The events (or happenings) in a story

Hints or clues about what is going to happen in the story

Turning point in the action in the story.  Most exciting part.

The person or thing fighting against the hero.  Another name for villain.