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The darkness wrapped its arms around me.

Talking between characters in a story

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

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

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

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

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

The events (or happenings) in a story

The part of the story when various problems start to happen

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

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

Someone from outside the story is telling it.  Uses the words "he", "she", "they"

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

The parts an author puts in/with text that helps the reader understand.

Murmur, creak, drip, pop, zip, wheeze

What text structure does a chef make us think of?

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

Nonfiction text structure that gives similarities and differences.

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

Example:  Nine new nickels are needed now.

What text structure does a reporter make us think of?

The angle from which a story is told.

My hands are icicles

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

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

The way an author organizes text

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

A reference that gives definitions, pronunciations, and context clues

A genre.  Strange events happen.  The main character looks for clues to solve problems

The subject or message being written about.

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

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

The hero of the story

A saying that contains information about humans

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

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

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

The author's attitude or feeling.

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

What text structure does a shopper make us think of?

Using words to create a special effect

Nonfiction that uses first person (I, me...) account to express feelings, news, events.

Giving human characteristics to an idea, object, or animal

Comparing two things without using like or as.

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

Catchy and memorable descriptive text and illustration.  Designed to sell or persuade.

Cat is to meow as dog is to bark

Reference that gives synonyms for words.  Helpful when writing.

I'm so hungry I could eat a horse.

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

Comparing two things using like or as

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

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

What text structure does a scientist conducting an experiment make us think of?

It's raining cats and dogs.

When the character solves the problem in the story

The telling of an event or period of time in a real person's life.

What text structure does a car mechanic make us think of?

The feeling a reader gets from a story

A type of literature that is made up of sentences, paragraphs, and sometimes chapters

Contains events that actually happened.  Has proven facts or information.

A written work in the form of poetry, prose, or drama

A concrete or real object used to represent an idea.  (ex. heart stands for love)

A type of literature organized by lines and stanzas

The milk was as white as snow

The part of the story that follows the climax

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

Problem the main character faces  (man vs. nature, man vs. society, man vs. man, man vs. self)

The person or character who is telling the story

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

great exaggeration

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