| Term | Definition |
| exposition | it provides background, establishes setting, and introduces characters |
| free verse | a form of poetry that has no set meter or rhyme |
| cause | the reason why something happens |
| resolution | resolving the conflict |
| plot | the actions or events in a story, book, movie, or play |
| informational text | a text that provides facts and true details about a topic |
| meter | the poem's pattern of sounds |
| stage directions | instructions on how the characters are to look, speak, and act |
| photograph | shows what something looks like (taken with a camera) |
| graphic | a text feature that presents information visually |
| characters | persons, things or animals in a play |
| line break | line ends and continues on the next |
| effect | what happens as a result of a cause |
| summary | an account of the main ideas of a text |
| characterization | the characters physical traits, feelings, personality, actions and reasons for actions |
| rhythm | the pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in a poem |
| glossary | an alphabetical list of words and their meanings found at the end of a book |
| playwright | a writer of plays |
| table of contents | tells the names of chapters and what page the chapters can found |
| script | the written play |
| text evidence | clues from the text that support inferences and conclusions made by the reader |
| lyrical poetry | a form of poetry that has rhyme and meter, and each stanza is usually the same number of lines |
| opinion | a personal belief that cannot be proven true |
| index | tells what pages the reader can find certain topics |
| caption | explains what a photograph or illustration is about |
| rising action | a series of events that leads up to the climax of the story. This is where problems start to arise. |
| rhyme | is a poem in which some of the verses end with the same sound |
| summarization | to make a summary |
| biography | a written account of another person's life |
| rhyme | words that end in the same sound |
| chart | a graphic that organizes information in rows and columns |
| imagery | a mental image |
| metaphor | a figure of speech that compares two things by saying that one thing is something else; does not use like or as |
| lines | a poetry line in a stanza |
| supporting details | facts and information that help support the main idea |
| summarize | to know how to find , organize and retell important facts or story elements from the text |
| personification | giving non-human objects human qualities. Ex: the sun smiled on the angry clouds |
| italics | shows that a word is important |
| simile | a figure of speech that compares two things using the word "like" or "as" |
| climax | the turning point of the story; the moment when the highest suspense reaches its peak |
| fiction | not real |
| falling aciton | a series of events that lead to the resolution of the conflict |
| act | the main sections of a drama |
| draw conclusions | take information from the text and figuring out what will happen or charactersinferences wlldo |
| stanzas | group of lines in poems |
| main idea | the most important idea about the topic |
| dialogue | the conversation between characters in a drama |
| autobiography | an account of a person's life written or otherwise recorded by that person |
| inferences | clues in the story and things you already know, can tell you what may happen next |
| scene | smaller sections within an act |
| fact | a statement that can be proven to be true |
| audience | people watching the play |
| bold print | shows what words are important or what words can be found in the glossary |
| onamateopia | the use of words that sound like what they mean. Ex: POW, ZIP, CRACK |
| rhyme scheme | the pattern of rhyming lines |
| narrator | tells the story |
| theme | the lesson or message in a story |
