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