week 2 Flashcards
fact
a staement that can be proved true or false
emphasize
to stress the importance
fiction
a term that describes many types of made up stories
figurative language
language that doesn't mean what it says ««»» Ex. ««»» personification, simile, metaphor, onomatopoeia, alliteration, idioms, hyperbole
first person {point of view}
a type of point of view that occurs when a character in the story using pronouns i or we
genre
a type of literature
graph
a type of chart that shows information with lines and points
illustration
a picture or visual representation of what something looks like
inference
an educated guess based on evidence in text and a readers prior knowledge
main character
the character that the writer focuses on the most
main idea
the central, or most important, idea in a text. what a passage is mostly about
map
a drawing of a location
metaphor
a comparison that is implied or suggested without using the words like or as
narrator
a person who tells the story
nonfiction
a term that describes stories that share facts and information about real people, places, things, and events
emphasize
to stress the importance
fact
a staement that can be proved true or false
fiction
a term that describes many types of made up stories
