Narrative set in the past that gives a fictional account of historical figures or events: Example: Number the Stars

Short Narrative with a plot and characters: Example: Rikki-tikki-tavi

Long narrative with a plot and characters: The Giver

A short story with a moral or lesson; often has animal characters: Example: The Ant and the Grasshopper

A traditional story that tells about a culture's heroes, ancestors, or gods; may explain how the natural world was created or how it works: Example: "How Sun and Moon Came to Be"

Literary work intended to be performed by actors for an audience.

Author of a play

Major division of a play

Words spoken by characters to each other.

literature written in verse, or in short lines.

Groups of lines within a poem

Repetition of sounds at the end of lines

Musical quality in poetry

Pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line of poetry.

Repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words

Fourteen-line poem with a precise rhyme scheme and meter

Beginning of the story, when the setting and characters are established

Problem a character must resolve

Bulk of the story, during which the character works to resolve the problem

The turning point, usually the most exciting part

The events aftr the climax, leading to the solving of the problem

The ending of the story, when the conflict has been resolved

Where and when a story takes place

Person, animal, or other creature in a fictional text

Qualities that define a character

Reason why characters act the way they do.

Perspective of a character or narrator OR expressed by the author's argument

Central message or lesson

Short restatement of a text in your own words

Direct comparison of two unlike things, using the word like or the word as

Comparison of two unlike things, without using the word like or the word as

Language that appeals to the five senses (sign, sound, touch, tast, and smell)

Giving an animal, object, or abstract idea human qualities

Author's attidude toward his or her subject

The feeling or emotion the reader gets from a piece of writing

Indirect reference to a well-known person, place, event, or object in history or in a literary work

Educated guess based on information and evidence in a text

Writing that conveys information using facts and other details

Central message of a text

Facts, reasons, examples, and other details that back up the main idea

Attempt to convince others to think or act in a certain way

Statment of the author's point of view that the author must prove

Something that provides information, such as a printed text, and electronic text, or a video

Material created by an eyewitness or a participant in an event

Material created by someone who studied an event, but was not present for it

Examine the similarities and differences in the text

Pattern of organization

Presents ideas in the order in which they occur

Reasons why things happen, and the results of the cause

Explains how to do something in a series of steps

Visual representations of information and ideas

Graphic representation of events in chronological order

Graphic representation of regions on Earth and their geographical features

Grahic organizer that presents information arranged into columns and rows in a box

Illustration with labels that describes something or shows how it works, usually pointing out its individual parts

Shows relationships between sets of data, such as a bar graph or line graph

Statement that can be verified, independently and objectively

Personal belief that cannot be proven true and with which others may disagree, not based on facts