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