5th Grade Vocab

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

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

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

giving human qualities to non-human things.

An extreme exaggeration.

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

The perspective from which a story is told.

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

To get in the way of...

Poetry that does NOT contain patterns of rhythm or rhyme.

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

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

A type of literature.

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

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

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

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

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

Characteristics of a particular group of people. 

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

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

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

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

A conversation between two characters in a story.

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

The problem in the story.

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

When a portion of the story goes back in time.

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

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

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

A beginning or coming into being.

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

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

The repeating of consonant at the beginning of words.

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

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

Where and when the story takes place.

What a piece of writing is mainly about.

To disagree; to say the opposite.

To influence

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

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

The events that make up a fictional story.

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

To tell.

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

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

The reason the author has for writing.

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