6th Grade Vocabulary

the relationship of the narrator to the story (viewpoint)

• Point of View

• Story

• Fiction

• Non-Fiction

the person who wrote the story or passage

• narrator

• author

• character

• audience

when a character in the story tells the story (using I, me, my, we, etc.)

• First Person

• Second Person

• Third Person

• Third Person Limited

when someone not in the story tells the story (like an invisible observer)

• First Person

• Second Person

• Third Person

when the characters in the story speak (usually set off by quotation marks)

• dialouge

• tone

• mood

• style

what a piece of writing is MOSTLY ABOUT

• Main Idea

• Summary

• Theme

• Genre

gives the MAIN IDEA and IMPORTANT DETAILS of a passage

• Main Idea

• Summary

• Theme

• Genre

more generally state TOPIC concerning a passage's MAIN IDEA

• Main Idea

• Summary

• Theme

• Genre

a CLASSIFICATION of LITERATURE, such as fiction, drama, poetry

• Main Idea

• Theme

• Genre

• Summary

a type of literature that tells a MADE-UP story

• Fiction

• Non-Fiction

• Drama

• Myth