| Term | Definition |
| first person | in first person point of view, one of the characters tells the story (I, me, we) |
| third person | someone on the outside of the story who is telling the story (he, she, they) |
| drama | literature written to be spoken and performed on stage (skits, plays) |
| narratives | stories told from one person's point of view |
| characters | people who are in the story |
| narrator | person telling the story |
| conflict | main problem faced by the main character(s) |
| inference | guess based on a known fact |
| main idea | what a passage is mainly about |
| genre | a style or kind of literature |
| phrase | a group of words |
| homonym | word that has more than one meaning |
| poem | a composition in verse |
| rhyme | words that have the same vowel sounds and the same final consonants (ex. cat, sat, hat) |
| sensory words | words that describe something we can taste, feel, hear, smell, or see |