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| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Character Development | How the character changes or grows in the story. |
| Traits | Describes a character's qualities, and are often labeled with adjectives. |
| Feelings | Temporary and based on the environment. |
| Motivations | The reasons for a character's thoughts, feelings, and actions. |
| Theme | The underlying message or big idea that the author wants the reader to take away. |
| Character Perspective | A character's attitude or feelings towards someone or something in the story. |
| Narrator's Point of View | The type of narration used (first-,second-, or third-person narration); a way of looking at or thinking about something |
| Text Features | Features that authors include to add new information or support information that is in the text |
| Problem/Solution | The text structure that shows different problems and then how the problem is solved |
| Sequence | A text structure that shows a series of related things or events, or the order in which things or events follow each other |
| Description | A text structure that describes or explains a topic, idea, person, place, or thing to give the reader a mental picture |
| Central Idea | The most important thing the author wants you to know about the topic |
| Relevant Details | Details in the text that directly support the central idea |
| Author's Purpose | The author's reason for writing the text |
| Author's Claim | What the author thinks or feels about a topic supported by reasons |
| Summary | A shortened version of a reading that only includes the most important points |
| Figurative Language | Phrases that mean something other than their literal meaning |
| Hyperbole | An extreme exaggeration |
| Idiom | Phrases that mean something completely different than their literal meaning |
| Alliteration | Repetition of sounds at the beginning of words |
| Personification | Giving an object an animal or human like trait |
| Compare | To look at two or more things to find what is the same |
| Contrast | To look at two or more things to find what is different |
| Context Clues | Hints the author gives to help readers determine the meaning of unknown words or phrases |
| Free Verse | Hints the author gives to help readers determine the meaning of unknown words or phrases |
| Limerick | A poem that is usually silly or goofy that is 5 lines with and AABBA rhyme pattern |
| Haiku | An unrhymed poem with 3 lines and a 5,7,5 syllable pattern that is usually about nature |
| Rhymed Verse | A poem with consistent pattern of rhymes and has stanzas |
| Author's Perspective | In informational texts, the author's attitude towards a topic or subject |
| Simile | Compares two things using like or as |
| Metaphor | Compares two things by saying one thing is another |