Poetry Vocab

The "big idea" or what the author is trying to tell the reader.

• Authors Message

• Authors Purpose

• Infer

• Character interactions

Persuade, Inform, and entertain

• authors message

• authors purpose

• Stanza

• conflict

Conclusion of the stories plot.

• Resolution

• Character interactions

• Conflict

• Explain

Comparing things using like or as

• simile

• Conflict

• explain

• line

A challenge with a way a person thinks or behaves.

• Character interactions

• conflict

• Text evidence

• infer

When a writer uses very descripted language sometimes figurative language.

• imagery

• describe

• infer

• explain

To make something clear or easy to understand by describing or giving information about it.

• Explain

• Character interaction

• Imagery

• Text evidence

Ways in which the characters of a story interact with eachother.

• Character interactions

• Explain

• Authors Message

• Authors purpose

A piece of information from a text that we use to support ideas, beliefs, opinions, and arguments.

• Text evidence

• Describe

• Authors message

• infer

A sentence in a poem

• stanza

• line

• simile

• describe