Make sure the summary includes all of the main events in the story

the time and place of a story

the moral lesson that the author wants you to learn

the incident that introduces the central conflict in a story.

the sequence of events in a story

Find the relationship between the two words they give you. Then, pick the pair of words that have the same relationship.

gives human characteristics to non-human objects

the use of a word whose sound suggests its meaning

Ex.’s - buzz, boom, meow

intentionally exaggerated figures of speech

Ex. - I haven’t seen you in a hundred years.

a figure of speech that uses the words like or as to make comparisons

Ex.’s - She is as pretty as a picture. She is like a picture.

a comparison that says one thing is another

Ex. - She is a picture

repetition of initial sounds

Ex. - Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers

repetition of final consonant sounds

Ex. – east west

repetition of vowel sounds

Ex. – mad hatter (both make the short a sound)

or geese repeat (make the long e sound)