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