Quarter 2 Review

What is a theme?

• The message or lesson the author wants you to learn

• The main idea of a text

• A summary of a text, no more than a paragraph

• A key detail from the text

What is dialogue?

• A sound word

• An exaggeration

• When someone is talking

• A comparison

What is a simile?

• A sound word

• A comparison that uses like or as

• An exaggeration

• When a character is speaking

What is point of view?

• The narrator

• Past tense, present tense, or future tense

• Where a story takes place

• The perspective the story is told from

What is first person?

• The story is told from the perspective of someone inside the story

• The story is told by someone outside of the story

• The story is told by someone who is speaking directly to the audience

What is second person?

• The story is told from the perspective of someone inside the story

• The story is told by someone outside of the story

• The story is told by someone who is speaking directly to the audience

What is third person?

• The story is told from the perspective of someone inside the story

• The story is told by someone outside of the story

• The story is told by someone who is speaking directly to the audience

Why would an author use first person?

• So the reader can see the big picture

• So the reader can understand the character's thoughts and feelings better

• So the reader feels like the character is speaking to them

Why would an author use third person?

• So the reader can see the big picture

• So the reader can understand the character's thoughts and feelings better

• So the reader feels like the character is speaking to them

What is a summary?

• A short retelling of a story

• One sentence telling what the text was mostly about

• The lesson or moral the author wanted us to learn

• A main idea