Reading Literary Vocabulary

A small piece of a bigger story

To look at closely and carefully

Where and when the story takes place

A huge exaggeration

How someone is on the inside or describes the person (caring, loving, giving, athletic, shy,)

fiction,realistic fiction,informational, drama,poetry,fairy tale, biography, autobiography

The stories or articles you are reading

When you say something you don’t mean; I have a frog in my throat.

A word that has the opposite meaning

When a not human thing is doing something a human does (it is an action word)

Sentence or sentences in a story that can prove my answer

Compare two unlike things without using like or as; you might see words like is, are, was, were

The problem

When you have a memory of something that happened in the past.

How they are alike

When you are given a clue in the story of what might happen in the future.

How they are different

The lesson learned or the moral

To make an educated guess based on what you already know

Pictures

You must find a sentence or sentences in the story that prove the answer you gave.

The author uses a figure of speech to help you get a picture in your head

Each section of a poem (kind of like paragraphs for stories)

To look around in a sentence or paragraph to figure out an unknown word

Like a dictionary; where you find the meaning of words

Why did author write this?

Retell the important parts of the story in my own words

Sound words

The authors attitude toward the subject

Moody Me, How does the story make me (the reader) feel

To help

A word that has the same meaning

The point of view or the way you see something

Compare two unlike things using the words like or as

All the important events that make up the story.

1^st person the character in the story is telling the story;you will see words like I, me, we,us