2nd Quarter Vocab Test

A story about a person's life written by another person.

Category of reading. Ex. fable, realistic fiction, science fiction, biography. etc. 

A brief story that leads to a moral, often using animals as characters

An an expression that cannot be understood if taken literally. Ex get head out of the clouds

an authors message in text, central idea or statement that unites an entire book.

A scene or event from the past that appears out of chronological order to explain in present.

The reason the author has for writing. ( Inform, persuade, express, & entertain)

A method of informing that shows the reason something happens and the result of it happening

Point of view in which the narrator is a character or an observer. Use words like I and my.

figure of speech that uses exaggeration to express emotion. ex book weighs a ton!

Writing that is true and tells of real people and events.

An outrageously exaggerated humerous story that is obviously unbelievable..

object given human qualities or human form.  ex. flowers danced in the wind. 

A perspective that presents the evens of a story from outside single character view.He she they

A person or an animal in a story, a play, or another literary work.

time and place of the action of literary work. It can include mood or atmosphere.

A syllable or word that comes before a root word to change it's meaning.  ex. Un, dis, non

a method of informing that shows the reason something happens and the result of it happening.

Most exciting moment of the story; turning point

Words that imitate sounds. Ex thud, sizzle, woof,

A comparison of two different things that are similar in some way

A comparison between to unlike things using "like" or "as".

Figure of speech that combines opposite terms in a phrase. ex. o loving hate

Repetition of the initial consonant sounds beginning several words in sequence

word pronounced the same but different spelling and meaning

tool used by author to provide voice to text...ex Idiom, similie, metaphor,

figure of speech in which a comparison is implied not stated. Ex This winter is a bear.

Added to the end of a root word to change the meaning. es, ed 

Pictoral way of representing knowledge. Helps to organize information.

Japanese Poetry, unrhymed, lines 5, 7, 5 syllables