Unit 5 Review

Hints the author gives to help you define a difficult or unfamiliar word.

• Author's Purpose

• Context Clues

• Point of View

• Metaphor

The author's main reason for writing, which could be to persuade, inform, entertain, or express thoughts and feelings.

• Point of View

• Theme

• Tone

• Author's Purpose

The perspective of the narrator

• Author's Purpose

• Theme

• Point of View

• Summarize

Includes the author's personal opinions or feelings.

• Subjective Point of View

• Objective Point of View

Gives only factual information and does not include opinions

• Subjective Point of View

• Objective Point of View

The author's attitude toward a certain topic.

• Tone

• Theme

• Author's Purpose

• Personification

To express the most important facts or ideas about something or someone in a short and clear form

• Theme

• Point of View

• Context Clues

• Summarize

The message or moral of the story that the author is trying to teach.

• Summarize

• Theme

• Author's Purpose

• Tone

Compares two unlike things without using like or as.

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Hyperbole

Gives human qualities to an animal, object, or idea.

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Hyperbole