Literacy Terms

Definition: the people or animals in a story

• Character

• Diagram

• Conflict

• Context clues

Definition: the problem in the story: part of the plot

• Compare and contrast

• Drama

• Conflict

• Curtain

Definition: clues and surrounding text that help the reader determine the meaning of an unknown word.

• Diary/journal

• Context clues

• Compare and contrast

• Detail

Definition: A day to day account of a person's life

• Dictionary

• Compare and contrast

• Context clues

• Diary/journal

Definition: a story written to be performed by actors a play

• Curtain

• Character

• Drama

• Conflict

finding similarities and differences between two things

• Character

• Dictionary

• Diary/journal

• Compare and contrast

Definition: A larger division of the play (Like a chapter)

• act

• alliteration

• antonym

• atlas

Definition: Repeating the same letter sound at the beginning of closely connected words. (A tongue twister)

• alliteration

• autobiography

• bold print

• cause

Definition: A word that is the opposite in meaning to another word.

• act

• antonym

• characteristics

• cast of characters

Definition: a figure of speech in which apparently contradictory terms appear in conjunction

• A) Metaphor

• B) Oxymoron

• C) Simile

• D) Hyperbole