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