| personifcation | | use information given to draw a conclusion |
| simile | | set a purpose for reading, an overview |
| understatement | | where and when a story takes place |
| hyperbole | | causes problems for the good guy |
| alliteration | | exaggerating facts or importance |
| allusion | | person who tells the story |
| euphemism | | represents information in a specific way |
| foreshadowing | | how are things alike |
| idiom | | comparison using like or ask |
| metaphor | | refering to something in history or mythology |
| onomatopoeia | | tells you where to find information in a book |
| parallelism | | identifies key topics by page they start on |
| revise | | good guy in a story |
| sequence | | order of events |
| compare | | the feeling a reader gets from a story |
| contrast | | angle or vantage point from which a story is told |
| infer | | word formed by imitating natural sounds |
| protagonist | | authros attitude towards the subject emotion she wants to convey |
| antagonist | | comparing without like or as |
| setting | | shows direction |
| dialouge | | an expressing with accepted meaning |
| narrator | | conversation between two or mor characters |
| point of view | | rewrite for clarity |
| flashback | | how are things different |
| tone | | use of corresponding syntax and grammar forms |
| mood | | making something less important |
| theme | | part of a book where terms are defined |
| glossary | | the main idea or point the authro wants to make |
| text features | | a less offensive way to say something |
| compass rose | | bold face, italics, bullets etc |
| preface | | repeating initial sounds |
| index | | break in the story to introduce information from the past |
| table of contents | | giving hints of what is to come in a story |
| graphic aides | | giving non human things human qualities |