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ROK Vocabulary Set 6

QuestionAnswer
Sensory language Helps readers see, hear, taste, feel or smell what the author is describing.
Sequence Following one thing after another in a certain order.
Setting Refers to the time, place and physical details in which the events of a story occur.
Short story A brief work of fiction.
Simile The comparison of two unlike things using "like" or "as'.
Stanza One of the divisions of a poem, composed of two or more lines.
Summarize This is how we take a larges selection of text and reduce to bare essentials.
Suspense A feeling of growing tension and excitement.
Symbols Using something specific to stand for something else, especially and idea, emotion, or abstract principle.
Synecdoche A figure of speech in which part is substituted for the whole or the whole is substituted for a part.
Tall tale A story about a larger than life character, either fictional or based on a real person.
Theme The broad idea, moral, or message, of an essay, paragraph, movie or a book.
Third person point of view The author used the pronouns 'he," 'she,' and "they,' to tell a story.
Third person omniscient point of view In literature, this occurs when the narrator knows all of what is done, said, felt, and thought by all characters.
Tone The writer's attitude or feeling toward the subject, characters, or audience. Examples: playful, serious, humorous, scary or angry
Created by: sjohnson5
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