Used in place of nouns

Details that give sight, sounds, and smells

The original word to which prefixes and suffixes may be added

Describes a noun or pronoun

The title for a paragraph, section, or page

The major idea of an entire narrative piece

Author writes about the thoughts and feelings of only one character

The basic part of a word that is left when all the affixers are removed. It cannot stand alone as a word.

Word that shows ownership

The story of someone’s life told by someone else

The design and size of the typing in a text including bold and italic.

The way the author sees a situation or the facts.

Events in a story, usually with a problem and solution

An ending added to a word to change the meaning

The time and place of a story

A group of words that are grouped together because of common characteristics or meanings

Words that sound alike and sometimes have the same spelling but have totally different meanings
(like horse and hoarse)

A poetic sound created by using several words that begin with the same consonant sounds

A short description about a picture

The author is writing to someone else (you)

An author tells how someone thinks or feels and can’t be proven true or false.

Showing how things are alike and how they are different--Venn Diagram is often used

Words that make pictures in your imagination (e.g., metaphors, similes, personification)

One of the people in a book or story.

The reason the author wrote the passage