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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Character Development | How the character grows throughout the story |
| Traits | Describes a character's qualities (both good and bad) and are often labeled with adjectives Ex. patient, lazy, honest |
| Feelings | Temporary based on the environment Ex. hopeful, scared, bored, amused |
| Motivation | The reason for a character's thoughts, feelings, and actions Ex. peer pressure, anger, love |
| Theme | The underlying message or big idea that the author wants the reader to take away Ex. friendship, teamwork, honesty |
| Character Perspective | A character's attitude or feelings toward 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 Ex. timeline, photograph, caption, heading |
| 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 image |
| 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 |
| Authors purpose | The authors reason for writing the text |
| Authors claim | What the author thinks or feels supported by reasons |
| Summary | A shortened version of a reading that only includes the most important points |
| Figurative Language | Phrases that mean something completely different than their literal meaning Ex. The acting teacher told me to "break a leg" before going on stage for my performance. |
| Simile | Compares two things using like or as Ex. He is as fast as lightening. |
| Metaphor | Compares two things by saying one thing is another Ex. My brother is a pig. |
| Hyperbole | An extreme exaggeration Ex. It is freezing in the classroom. |
| Idiom | Phrases that mean something completely different than their literal meaning Ex. The acting teacher told me to "break a leg" before going on stage for my performance. |
| Alliteration | Repetition of sounds at the beginning of words Ex. Trinity tripped on the treadmill. |
| Personification | Giving an object an animal or human like trait Ex. Time flew by this morning in reading class. |
| 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 | Any form of poetry that lacks a set meter or rhyme scheme |
| 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 |
| Authors Perspective | In informational texts, the author's attitude towards a topic or subject |
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