Literature Vocabulary - Middle School - Part 1

This is when you use pieces of information to base youropinion. You draw a ________.

This is the reference to a person, place, or event with which a reader is likely to be familiar

This is the combination of ways that an author shows readers what a character is like.

This goes beyond the literal meanings of words to create special effects or feelings.

This is reading between the lines. 

This is forming a broad idea or opinion based on specific instances.

The key point made in a passage is called its ____ idea.

This involves one or more reasons to lead the reader to a conclusion on an issue.

This is a comparison based on a similarity between things that are otherwise dissimilar.

This is when the audience or the readers know something that the characters do not know.

The main problem in a literary work is called the major ____.

This is the reason for creating written work – to inform, entertain, or persuade.

This is the theme of a story, novel, poem, or drama that readers can apply to life.

This is a method of relating how two or more elements or texts are DIFFERENT.

This includes great masterpieces of the Greek, Roman, and other ancient civilizations.

This is whoever will be reading, listening or watching a story, text, or drama.

This is the meaning which surrounds a specific word,sentence, idea, or passage.

This is the category or type of literature.

This is writing that tells about imaginary characters and events.

This is a point of view in which the story is told by one of the characters.

This is information from the text that supports a thought or belief.

These are the words spoken by characters in a literary work.

This is a piece of information that is used to support a main idea.