FSA Reading Vocab 6th Grade

Same sounds at the beginning of the words (Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers)

To examine or judge carefully

Form of a noun or pronoun that indicates "belonging to" for singular nouns

Fiction represented in a setting true to the history of the time in which the story takes place

Words with opposite meanings

Non-fiction text, written primarily to convey factual information

When the main character overcomes obstacles or challenges in a story

How the text makes the reader feel

The overall point the author is making

A device in literature where an object represents an idea (example: $, #)

Words that sound the way they are spelled (pop, buzz)

Repetition of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line of poetry

Word to which prefixes and suffixes can be added to form different words

Type of writing that tells a story

The message or lesson to be learned

The use of clues to give readers a hint of events that will occur later on

Piece of information that can be proven

To highlight or stress the importance of

The feelings or attitude of the author coming through the text

The perspective from which the story is told

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The character who tells the story

Point of view that presents the the events of a story from the outside of any single characters

The feeling a word gives a the reader

The use of words to express the opposite of their literal meaning

Events in a story that are told by a single character from their point of view

Category used to classify literary works, usually by form, technique, or content

Main source of drama in a literary work

A big exaggeration to emphasize something (I'm starving)

A personal point of view or belief

Method used by the author to give readers information about a character

Figure of speech that compares two things without the use of like or as

Story of a person's life written by someone other than the subject of the work

Describes how things are alike and different

A conclusion we can draw on our own, based on information in the text

Problem in the character's mind

The story of a person's life written by himself or herself

Describes a situation then tells what happened because of it

The insertion of an earlier event into the normal chronological sequence of a narrative

An objective summary

Events that are in order from then they occurred

Conversation between characters

Words with similar meanings

Description of one thing in terms usually used for something else

The information in the text to understand a word or phrase

Any story that is the product of imagination rather than fact

Figure of speech in which non-human things are given human characteristics

An expression that has a meaning different from its literal words (I'm on top of the world)

Moment in a story when the action reaches its greatest conflict

The first thing you do when the FSA starts