Study Guide

Inference

• A conclusion reached with reason and evidence.

• A wild guess.

• Conclusion based on only facts.

• Alternate spelling of interference.

Plot

• An evil plan in a story.

• The main events of a story.

• A story.

• The most climactic part of a story.

Theme

• The subject or idea of a piece of writing, usually a sentance

• The biggest part of the story.

• The subject or idea of a piece of writing, usually one word.

• The meaning of the text.

Personification

• Figurative language, using "like" or "as."

• Figurative language, giving a human animal characteristics.

• Literal language.

• Figurative language, giving something human characteristics.

Figurative language

• Only metaphors.

• Non-literal language.

• Completely literal language.

• A type of personafication.

Metaphor

• Figurative language, using "like" or "as."

• Figurative language, without using "like" or "as."

• An analogy, or example.

• Type of comparison.

Simile

• Figurative language, without using "like" or "as."

• Giving something human characteristics.

• Figurative language, using "like" or "as."

• Different way to spell smile.

Point of view

• The perspective of a story-first, second, or third.

• The author's side in an argument.

• A place you can see from.

• A glare.

Alliteration

• Making a sentence as confusing as possible.

• The repetition of the same letter or sound in text.

• The avoidance of repeating the same letter or sound in text.

• Making mevery mword mstart mwith mthe msame mletter.

Genre

• Where a book goes in a library.

• A category of media, such as books or music, based on the title and cover.

• Fiction or non-fiction.

• A category of media, such as books or music, based on subject and style.