The main reason an author has for writing a text. (to explain, express, inform, or persuade)
Point of View
Text Structure
Author's Purpose
Claim
To look for differences
Cause
Contrast
Effect
Compare
The emotion or judgement that a word expresses
Connotation
Denotation
Reference
Definition
A person, animal or other creature that takes part in the action of a story or poem
Protagonist
Plot
Character
Resolution
A type of figurative language that compares two unlike things using the words like or as
Personification
Hyperbole
Simile
Metaphor
A type of figurative language that makes a comparison without using like or as
Personification
Hyperbole
Simile
Metaphor
A type of figurative language that attributes humanlike qualities to something that is nonhuman
Metaphor
Personification
Hyperbole
Simile
The conflict in a story that its characters must resolve
Problem
Plot
Climax
Resolution
The most important idea in a text (main idea)
Central Idea
Conclusion
Main Points
Thesis
To look for similarities
Effect
Contrast
Compare
Cause
The result of a cause
Effect
Compare
Cause
Contrast
The end of a piece of writing that sums up the writer's main points; how a conflict is solved
Beginning
Introduction
Exposition
Conclusion
Evidence that helps to convey the main idea of a text
Fact
Opinion
Inference
Dialogue
The person who tells a story
Antagonist
Narrator
Protagonist
Character
Point of View in which the narrator is in the story AND uses the pronouns I, me, my
1st Person
3rd Person Omniscient
3rd Person Limited
2nd Person
Point of View when the narrator tells the story but is not in the story AND knows thoughts and feelings of any character
3rd Person Omniscient
2nd Person
3rd Person Limited
1st Person
