Reading vocabulary

the ending; what the reader can decide will happen based on text clues.

• conclude

• plot

• compare

• Author's purpose

the struggle between opposing forces in a story or play.

• conflict

• plot

To communicate by statement

• Convey

• Dialogue

• Excerpt

• Figurative Language

to arrive at a conclusion; to guess based on information

• Infer

• Resolution

• Educated guess

the overall, worldly lesson that can be learned from the story.

• Theme

• Main Idea

• Central Idea

• Detail

extreme exaggeration for effect

• Hyperbole

• Alliteration

• Idiom

• Simile

repeated beginning consonant sounds. Example: The fog filtered over the field finally hiding the fence

• Alliteration

• Idiom

• Metaphor

• Allusion

example sentence:

Matthew is a tall, cool drink of water.

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Idiom

• Onomatopoeia

examples:

Bang!, hiss, drip, whoosh

• Onomatopoeia

• Idiom

• Metaphor

• Simile

giving human characteristics to something non-human.

• Personification

• Idiom

• Simile

• Metaphor