Comparing Theme Vocabulary

to tell how things are alike

• compare

• contrast

to tell how things are different

• compare

• contrast

a type of literature that describes the adventures of beings with more than human powers that attempts to explain mysterious events

• myth

• legend

a story that might not be true but is handed down from generations and accepted as historical

• myth

• legend

the moral or lesson of a story

• main idea

• theme

stories passed down through many generations by word of mouth Fairy Tales are examples

• traditional literature

• theme

paraphrase

• to reword in a shorter form something that was written

• myth

• conflict

main idea

• moral or lesson of a story

• what a piece of writing is mainly talking about

evidence

• main idea

• information that supports a claim