6th grade vocabulary words

What is the definition of Illustrate?

• To show, describe, tell, indicate

• To add to something

• Bigger message/lesson of the story (friendship, family, overcoming obstacles)

• The overall feeling of the story

What is the definition of Tone?

• The overall feeling of the story

• The author’s feelings/attitude toward the topic/subject in the story

• How something is made

• To add to something

What is comparing and contrasting?

• Comparing similarities and differences between two things

• Something that stands for or represents something else

• Words to describe a person that is determined by characters actions, words and thoughts

• Where and when a story takes place

What is Foreshadowing?

• the type of story/book

• clue (s) that tells the reader what will happen later on in the story

• Figuring out something that’s not directly stated in the text

• Paragraph in a Poem

Which of these are a type of Genre?

• Genre

• Irony

• Fables

• Theme

What is a stanza?

• A paragraph in a poem

• How something is made

• The main events in the story

• The overall feeling of the story

What is the definiton of setting?

• Where and when a story takes place

• The main events in a story

• A problem in the story

• A story with magic, mythical creatures, or monsters

Fantasy is a book about the life of a person

• True

• False

The genre of nonfiction is about true stories

• False

• True

What is a autobiography?

• A biography written about the writer's life

• A genre that has stanza's, usually rhymes

• A story that isnt real, or cant happen

• A book about someones life