Break it down into parts. Tell about the parts.

Tell about it. Give details about it. Paint a picture with words.

Tell the good and the bad. Judge it.

Create. Put together.

Read between the lines. Think beyond the text. What is the hidden meaning?

List in steps. Outline. Explain the development of. Follow (or explain) the path.

Tell all the ways they are the same.

Tell all the ways they are different.

Tell how something happened. Tell the steps.

Take your best guess on what will happen next.

Give the short version: main idea + the beginning, middle, end.

Back up an answer with details. Prove. Provide evidence.

. . . force working against the protagonist or main character; . . . may be another character, society, a force of nature, or even a force within the main character

…struggle between opposing forces…

Character struggles with a force outside itself

Character struggles with a force within itself

…the central character or herousually the one with whom the audience tends to identify -- involved in the main conflict, often changes during the plot

1st person: narrator is one of the characters – I, me, we

narrator’s perspective is limited to the mind of only one character

narrator is not in the story – he, she, it

all-knowing – narrator can tell you everything about everybody, including thoughts and feelings

a specific way of looking at something

The vantage point (or perspective) from which a story is told:

. . . create fresh and original descriptions . . . while not literally true, help readers picture ordinary things in new ways

A type or category of literature

. . . a type of literature in which ideas and feelings are expressed in compact, imaginative, and musical language.

…the ordinary form of spoken and written language – NOT POETRY

Words and phrases that help readers see, hear, taste, feel, even smell what an author is describing . . .

. . . a reference to a famous person, place, event, or work of literature

…the truth is exaggerated for emphasis or humorous effect.

. . . consists of words and phrases that appeal to a reader’s senses

…a comparison of two things that have some quality in common – DIRECT COMPARISON

…a comparison of two things that have some quality in common – like or as

. . . a rhymed pair of lines in a poem

speech patterns specific to a particular group of people or a specific location

The words that characters speak aloud…

. . . use of any element of language . . . more than once

. . . the voice that talks to the reader – like the narrator in a work of fiction

A group of lines within a poem . . .

. . . a repetition of a sound or letter at the beginning of words

The repetition of identical vowel sounds in words close together.

. . . the use of words whose sound suggests their meaning

The giving of human qualities to an animal, object, or idea…