| Personification | | The basic argument advanced by a speaker or writer who then attempts to prove it; the subject or major argument of a speech or composition. |
| Point of View | | A declaration, statement, allegation or claim |
| Phonics | | A device used in literature to create expectation or to set up an explanation of later developments. |
| Implict | | A comprehension strategy; knowinf or recognizing when what one is reading or writing is not making sense. |
| Allusion | | Made up of two or more overlapping cirlces. They are useful for examining similarities, and differences in characters stories, poems, events, processes, and major ideas between two tesxts ect. |
| Symbolism | | A literary tone used to ridicule or make fun of human vice or weakness. |
| Fluency | | An exaggeration or overstatement (I was so embarrassed I could have died!) |
| Author's Purpose | | An organized body of knowledge; a discipline; a content area. |
| Pattern book | | A device used in literature to present action that occured before the beginning of the story. They are often introduced as the dreams or recollections of one or more characters. |
| Foreshadowing | | Identical or very similar recurring final sounds in words usually at the end of lines of a poem. |
| Flashback | | The speed at which a person reads, usually silently. |
| Legends | | Groups of letters that can be placed before a word to alter its meaning |
| Graphic Organizer | | The time and place in which a story unfolds. |
| Accuracy | | The author's intent either to inform or teach someone about something, to entertain people, or to persuade or convince their audience to do or not do something. |
| Reading Rate | | The essential techniques used in literature (characterization, setting, plot, theme). |
| Paraphrase | | An implied or indirect reference in literature to a familiar person, place or event. |
| Bias | | Text which conveys a story or which relates events of dialogue; contrast with expository text. |
| Antonym | | A long narrative poem about the adventures of a hero of great historic or legendart importance. |
| Literary Conflict | | A topic of discussion or writing; a major idea broad enough to cover the entire scope of lierary work. |
| Epic | | A diagram or pictorial device that shows relationships. |
| Assertion | | Text written to explain and convey information about a specific topic. Contrasts with narrative text. |
| Subject Area | | A comparison of two unlike things in which a word of comparison (like or as) is used. |
| Hyperbole | | A light or humorous verse form of five lines, of which lines 1,2 and 5 rhymes and lines 3 and 4 rhyme. |
| Meter | | The pattern or beat of a poem. |
| Venn Digrams | | A book with a predictable language structure and often written with predictable text, also known as predictable book. |
| Synonym | | A word that is opposite of another word. (hot-cold,night-day) |
| Poetic Purpose | | A form of a noun or pronoun that indicates possesion. |
| Genre | | The relationship between letters and sounds fundamental in beginning reading. |
| Nonfiction | | The story of a person's life written by himself or herself. |
| Expository Text | | The topic and specific feeling or idea associated with it. It can be directly stated or implied in the examples and illusions used by the author. |
| Syntax | | The attitude of the author toward the audience adn characters. |
| Thesis | | Words that have several meanings depending upon how they are used in a sentence. |
| Setting | | Meanings which, though unexpressed in the literal text, may be understood by the reader; implied. |
| Alliteration | | Teh pattern or structure of word order in sentences, clauses and phrases. |
| Problem and Solution | | The study of meaning in language. |
| Tone | | A document that focuses on civic issues or matters of public policy at the community level and beyond. |
| Satire | | The use of a word or phase to mean the exact opposite of its literal or usual meaning; incingruity between the actual result of a sequence of events and the expected result. |
| Theme | | The fluency, rhythm and liveliness in writing that make it unique to the writer. |
| Autobiography | | An object or absract idea given human qualities or human form (Flowers danced about the lawn). |
| Inference | | The way in which an author reveals character, events and ideas in telling a story; the vantage point from which the story is told. |
| Multiple-meaning Words | | A device in literature where an object represents an idea. |
| Onomatopoeia | | Correctness of precision. |
| Simile | | One of two or more words pronounced alike, but different in spelling or meaning. (hair, hare) |
| Irony | | Restate text in or passage in other words, often to clarify meaning or show understanding. |
| Public Document | | A judgement based on a personal point of view. Example- All fifth graders are immature. |
| Rhythm | | Prose writing that is not fictional; designed primarily to explain, argue, instruct, or describe tather than entertain. For the most part, its emphasis is factual. |
| Semantics | | An organizational structure in nonfiction texts, where the author typically presents a problem and possible solutions to it. |
| Limerick | | The repetition of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line of poetry. |
| Rhyme | | Language that cannot be taken literally since it was written to create a specific effect or feeling. |
| Voice | | The clear, easy, written or spoken expression of ideas; freedom from word-identification problems that might hinder comprehension in silent reading or the expressionof ideas in oral reading. |
| Narrative | | One of two or more words in a language that have highly simialr meanings. |
| Author's Thesis | | The use of words whose sounds express or suggest their meaning. These words may mimic sounds they denote. |
| Figurative Language | | A story about a mythical or supernatural beings or events, or a story coming down from the past, especially one popularly regarded as historical although not verifiable. |
| Literary Devices | | A category used to classify literary works, usually by form, technique or content (prose, poetry) |
| Possessive | | Tools used by the author to enliven and provide voice to the writing (dialogue, alliteration) |
| Validity | | Refers to statements that have the appearence of truth or reality. |
| Self-monitor | | The repetition of initial consonant sounds in neighboring words. |
| Homophone | | The struggle that grows out of the interplay of the two opposing forces in a plot. |
| Prefix | | A judgement based on reasoning rather than on direct or explicit statement. A conclusion based on facts or cirumstances; understaind gained by "reading between the lines." |
| Literary Elements | | Text with literary devices and language peculiar to poetry (stanza, rhyme, meter,etc.). |
