5th Grade Vocab (Show What You Know!)

Characteristics of a particular group of people. 

The repeating of consonant at the beginning of words.

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

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

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

Poetry that does NOT contain patterns of rhythm or rhyme.

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

What a piece of writing is mainly about.

To tell.

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

giving human qualities to non-human things.

To get in the way of...

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

A type of literature.

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

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

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

A beginning or coming into being.

The problem in the story.

An extreme exaggeration.

The events that make up a fictional story.

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

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

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

A conversation between two characters in a story.

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

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

When a portion of the story goes back in time.

To disagree; to say the opposite.

Where and when the story takes place.

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

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

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

To influence

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

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The reason the author has for writing.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The perspective from which a story is told.

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

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

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