The main reason an author has for writing a text. (to explain, express, inform, or persuade)
Author's Purpose
Text Structure
Point of View
Claim
To look for differences
Effect
Cause
Compare
Contrast
The emotion or judgement that a word expresses
Reference
Definition
Denotation
Connotation
A person, animal or other creature that takes part in the action of a story or poem
Character
Protagonist
Plot
Resolution
A type of figurative language that compares two unlike things using the words like or as
Simile
Personification
Hyperbole
Metaphor
A type of figurative language that makes a comparison without using like or as
Simile
Hyperbole
Metaphor
Personification
A type of figurative language that attributes humanlike qualities to something that is nonhuman
Hyperbole
Simile
Metaphor
Personification
The conflict in a story that its characters must resolve
Plot
Climax
Resolution
Problem
The most important idea in a text (main idea)
Conclusion
Main Points
Thesis
Central Idea
To look for similarities
Cause
Compare
Contrast
Effect
The result of a cause
Compare
Cause
Contrast
Effect
The end of a piece of writing that sums up the writer's main points; how a conflict is solved
Introduction
Conclusion
Beginning
Exposition
Evidence that helps to convey the main idea of a text
Opinion
Inference
Dialogue
Fact
The person who tells a story
Antagonist
Protagonist
Character
Narrator
Point of View in which the narrator is in the story AND uses the pronouns I, me, my
3rd Person Omniscient
2nd Person
3rd Person Limited
1st 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
1st Person
2nd Person
3rd Person Limited
