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Personification is
when you give human qualities to a non living thing
a word that sounds like itself
comparing two things
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What is theme?
The topic of a story.
The message or lesson of a story, is not explicitly stated by the author.
A short story.
The events in the story.
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How do you identify poetry?
Lines and Stanzas
Cast of Characters
Pictures
Paragraphs and Title
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To conclude in your reading
Summarize what you read
Start reading a new paragraph
make an inference based on textual clues and your background knowledge
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What is point of view?
When the author uses humor to tell a story.
How the reader perceives a character.
When the story is being told.
The person is telling the story; can be 1st person or 3rd person.
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Third person point of view
story told by someone else (he, she, him, her, they, them)
tells his/ her own story (I, me, we, us)
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To conclude in your writing,
Tell your reader you are done talking
Restate your thesis and give your reader a takeaway
Introduce your topic
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The plot of a story
The events that make up a story's beginning, middle and end.
The characters in a story
The resolution of a story
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What is author's purpose?
One's purpose for writing; entertain, describe, inform, or persuade.
The theme of a story.
Can be found in fiction, but not informational texts.
The plot of a story.
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When you refer to something, you
look back at something such as the text or a picture
Listen to something or someone
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The speaker of a text is
The person reading the story aloud.
The person who is telling the story.
The person who wrote the story.
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The main idea of a passage is
A detail from one of the paragraphs
The central idea or what the passage is mostly about
Always found in the last paragraph
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What is the climax of a story?
The solution to the problem.
The characters in the story?
Tells when and where the story takes place.
The most exciting or interesting point in a series of events.
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A metaphor is
similar sounds grouped together
comparing two or more unlike things not using the words like or as
comparing two unlike things using the words like or as
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What is the message of a text?
An informational text.
The lesson the author wants the reader to learn from the text.
Borrows storytelling elements of fiction to tell true story.
Contains facts and opinions.
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An opinion is
Something that can be proven
What someone feels about something
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What is a simile?
Compares two unlike things using the words like or as.
Extreme exxageration used to emphisize or for humor.
Repetition of sounds at the beggining of two or more words near each other.
Compares two unlike things without using the words like or as.
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A stanza is...
looks like a paragraph and is found in poetry
A poem's message
5-8 lines long
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What is a scene in a play?
Tells how to say a line in a play.
The theme of a play.
The sections that make up each act.
Who the characters are.
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Ist Person Point of View
It tells a story in free verse
Main Idea
Our, Us, My, We
Him, Her, Them
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What is a prefix?
A word part added to the end of a word to make a new word.
A base word.
The context clues used to figure out a word.
A word part at the beginning of a word to make a new word.
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What does evaluate mean?
Making a judgment, resulting from analysis.
To summarize a story.
To infer what's happening in a story.
To decide what character you like best.
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A quotation is
Something someone says and is put in to quotation marks
Something you have heard before
Things your parents say to you
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What is a narrator?
The author of a story.
When the story is told.
The characters in a story.
The person telling the story.
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Text
structure is
the ways the author reveals characters
the ways that authors organize information in a text
the ways the author reveals the climax
the ways the author reveals the setting
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What is dialogue?
A character's thoughts
The end of the story.
Where a character is introduced in the story?
A talk between characters in a play, film, or novel.
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What is sensory language?
A simile or a metaphor.
Explains how you use your five senses.
The use of words to create a connection to any of the five senses.
A description of a passage.
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The author of a text is
The person that wrote it
The person that drew the pictures
The person reading it aloud
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A poet is...
The character inside a poem.
The author of a poem.
The person who writes a story.
A person who tells a story.
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What is a paragraph?
A unit of words with a beginning and and end, has a subject and verb.
A group of lines from a poem.
A long piece of writing.
made up of one or more sentences, begins on a new line and is indented.
