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| real people, events, and places |
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| a true story that is told by a person about what he/she experienced |
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| a true story about a certain moment in a person's life, told by that person |
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| story of a real person's life told by another |
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| story of a real person's life, told by that person |
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| writing that uses figures of speech and imagery to express emotion in a few words |
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| a nonfiction document about a single subject |
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| a dramatic speech where a character is talking to him/herself |
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| a statement that can be proven true |
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| a statement of personal belief; cannot e proven |
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| a statement about a certain group of people that is believed to be true of the entire group |
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| an attitude that always favors one way of feeling, such as prejudice |
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| central idea; same as main idea |
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| a scene that breaks the normal time order to show a past event |
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| the central theme; same as main idea |
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| when and where a story takes place |
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| the story told from their shoes |
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| the creation of characters |
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| repetition of vowel sounds |
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| free of regular meter and rhyme |
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| the point of greatest tension in the story |
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| how the problem is resolved |
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| the person who has written the poem |
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| a line of writing in which words are arranged in a rhythmic pattern |
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| language that is not meant to be taken literally such as similes, metaphors, personification, and exaggeration. |
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| type of language that gives human qualities to non-human things |
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| comparison two unlike things using "like" or "as". |
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| a comparison of two unlike things in which one becomes another or saying something is something else |
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| repetition of same consonant sounds |
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| words that imitate sounds |
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| information to support a statement |
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| the reason a writer writes a text |
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| a relationship between two terms |
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| the central idea or theme |
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| the act or power that produces an effect on something or someone |
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| writing that entertains the audience |
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| writing that informs an audience |
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| connections between things or people |
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| the plans or methods used |
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| material presented to help find the truth |
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| the relationships between two or more things or people |
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| an organization of people or things having a common interest |
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| making final decisions reached from reasoning |
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| making final decisions reached from reasoning |
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| strategies authors use in their writing such as figurative language, dialogue, flashbacks, etc. |
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| words that may not be known but can be figured out by reading the words around it and drawing conclusions about the word's meaning |
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| arriving at a conclusion by using reasoning; answer is not directly stated |
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| the reasons an author chooses to use different literary devices and word choices; the author's purpose of the text and the way in which he presents that text |
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