Brief tales told to point out a moral

Pont of view where the author is godlike, seeing and knowing all

An interruption, often taking readers back to the beginning of the story

Expository text structure where the author explains how two or more things are alike or different

Stories that are told through poetry rather than prose

Words that end with similar sounds used at the end of poetry lines

A poem where the words and lines are arranged on the page to help convey the meaning

The author lists items or events in numerical, chronological, or alphabetical order

Alphabet book, biographies, and reference books

Stories that explore scientific possibilities

The people or personified animals in a story

A person place or thing used to represent something else in a story

Unrhymed poems that celebrate everyday objects, especially those things not usually appreciated

A comparison between two unlikely things, without using like or as

The location, weather, time period, and/or time in which the story takes place

Stories created by ancient peoples to explain natural phenomena

The perspective from which the story is written that helps readers understand the characters and events on the story

A type of book read to learn about a person's life

Words that imitate sounds

A poem created by clipping key words and phrases from stories, newspapers, Internet, magazine articles, and/or nonfiction books and arranging them to make a poem

Stories that are lifelike and believable

The overall feeling or mood in a story

Almanacs, dictionaries, and atlases

The internal beat of a poem that is felt when it is read aloud