Reading Review Terms

Definition: A struggle, clash, or disagreement between opposing characters, forces, or emotions.

• third person

• conflict/problem

• resolution

• metaphor

Term: 2nd hand account

• In nonfiction, the account when the narrator was not actually at the event being described. Includes only facts.

• a point of view in which the narrator is not in the story- uses he, she, or it in referring to a character

• In nonfiction, the account when the narrator was actually at the event being described. Includes thoughts and feelings of the narrator.

• person telling the story- the author is the storyteller when this person is talking

Term: hyperbole

• a figure of speech that uses exaggeration

• a guess based on prior knowledge and text evidence

• a figure of speech that uses one thing to mean another and makes a comparison between the two (is)

• what a piece of writing is mainly talking about

Definition: the view from which the story is told

• point of view

• text features

• text evidence

• personification

Term: text evidence

• what a piece of writing is mainly talking about

• representing an object as a person or animal

• information from the reading that supports a claim

• a guess based on prior knowledge and text evidence

Definition: time and place of a story

• A) setting

• B) simile

• C) text

• D) explicit

Definition: all the events in a story starting with a problem and ending with a solution.

• metaphor

• text

• plot

• narrator

Definition: a figure of speech that uses one thing to mean another and makes a comparison between the two (is).

• third person

• metaphor

• narrator

• hyperbole

Term: explicit.

• what a piece of writing is mainly talking about

• what is said exactly in the reading

• charts, tables, graphs, headings

• a figure of speech that uses exaggeration

What does 'text' refer to?

• most important idea or message in a story

• individual things that happen in the plot

• anything that can be read

• time and place of a story