Unit 4: Reading Vocabulary

identify the similarities and differences between two people, places, things, or ideas

• contrast

• compare

• plot

• hyperbole

underlying message or the big idea of a story

• setting

• relationship

• distinguish

• theme

identify the differences between two people, places, things, or ideas

• compare

• idiom

• literal language

• contrast

where a story or event takes place

• setting

• plot

• character

• perspective

to tell apart by seeing differences

• hyperbole

• distinguish

• plot

• perspective

the way in which two or more concepts, objects, or people are connected

• relationship

• idiom

• literal language

• perspective

obvious exaggeration or overstatements

• idiom

• personification

• hyperbole

• literal language

main sequence of events of a story

• non-literal language

• contrast

• plot

• theme

a phrase that cannot be understood simply by understanding the meaning of the words; a figure of speech

• hyperbole

• relationship

• idiom

• personification

how one sees, feels and thinks about what is happening

• distinguish

• literal language

• theme

• perspective