Question | Answer |
Conflict | A problem a character faces |
Plot | The made-up series of events that describe how the conflict progresses |
Setting | Where and when the story takes place |
Mood | The overall feeling that the work conveys |
Narrator | A speaker |
Point of View | A certain perspective |
First Person Point of View | A perspective of a character that is IN THE STORY |
Third Person Point of View | The perspective of a narrator who IS NOT IN THE STORY |
Theme | Central Message (Moral) |
Style | A characteristic way of using language and expressing ideas. |
Short Story | A brief work of fiction that focuses on one main plot around one conflict and can be read in one sitting |
Novels | Longer works of fiction that contain plots, subplots, or related stories |
Novellas | Works of fiction that are shorter than novels but longer than short stories |
Historical Fiction | Literature that draws in part of real people and events to tell invented stories |
Biographies | Tell the story of someones life and are told from the perspective of someone else |
Autobiographies and Memoirs | Tell the story of the author's life and reflect the writer's thoughts and feelings about events. |
Letters | Written forms of communication from one person to another. |
Journal/Diary | Records of the daily events and the writers thoughts/feelings about them. |
Essay/Artical | Brief written works about a specific topic. Their purpose might be to explain, to persuade, or to inform. |
Informal Text | Written documents we come across everyday. For example, textbooks, applications, articles and instructions are informal texts. |
Anticipate | To look forward to, expect |
Modify | To change |
Verify | To confirm |
Preview | Looking at graphic representations and text structures such as transitions, photos, and organization. |
Formulate | A prediction based on what you know about the topic. |
Text Feature | Things that guide you through a section. Text features include all the components of a story or article that are not the main body of text. These include the table of contents, glossary, headings, bold words, pictures, and captions. |
Common Noun | Names of anyone of a group of people, places, things or ideas. |
Proper Noun | Names a specific person, place, thing or ideas. |
Noun | Words that name people, places, things or ideas. |
Concrete Noun | Names of people, places, or things that can be perceived with the five senses. |
Abstract Noun | Names ideas, beliefs, qualities, or concepts- things that cannot be perceived by the senses. |
Possessive Noun | Nouns used to show ownership or belonging, |
Singular Possessive Noun | Nouns where you add an apostrophe and an 's' |
Plural Possessive Noun | Nouns where you add an apostrophe after an 's' |
Plural Noun | Refers to more than one person, place, thing, or idea. |
Action Verb | A verb that indicates action |
Linking Verb | A verb that connects the subject with a word that describes it or identifies the subject. |
Principal Parts | Present (basic form), the present participle, the past and the past participle |
Irregular Verbs | Verbs whose past and past participle forms do not follow a predictable form |
Subject/Verb Agreement | Sentence must contain at least one subject and a verb. |
Simple Sentence | A single independent clause |
Verbs- Simple Tenses | Present, past and future tense |
Verbs- Perfect Tenses | Describes an action that was or will be completed at a certain time. |
Character Traits | Qualities, attitudes, and values that a character possesses, such as dependability. |
Characterization | The way or ways in which a writer reveals a character. |
Direct Characterization | The writer comes right out and tells you what a character is like |
Indirect Characterization | The writer hints at what a character is like. Sharing the character's actions, presenting the characters thoughts/feelings. |
Personal Pronoun | A pronoun used in place of a noun in a sentence. They change their form, or case, depending on how they function in a sentence. |
Nominative Case Pronoun | Used when the pronoun is the subject of a verb. Ex: They |
Objective Case Pronoun | Used when the pronoun is used as a direct of indirect object (i.e. it) |
Possessive Case Pronoun | Used to show ownership (Ex: her) |
Reflexive Pronoun | Reflects the action of the verb back to the subject. They always end in a -self or -selves |
Antecedent | A word, phrase, or clause, that is replaced by a pronoun or other substitute later, in the same or in another sentence. In Jane lost a glove and she can't find it, Jane is the antecedent of she and glove is the antecedent of it. |