The main reason an author has for writing a text. (to explain, express, inform, or persuade)
Claim
Text Structure
Author's Purpose
Point of View
To look for differences
Effect
Cause
Compare
Contrast
The emotion or judgement that a word expresses
Connotation
Definition
Denotation
Reference
A person, animal or other creature that takes part in the action of a story or poem
Plot
Character
Resolution
Protagonist
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
Personification
Hyperbole
Metaphor
Simile
A type of figurative language that attributes humanlike qualities to something that is nonhuman
Personification
Hyperbole
Metaphor
Simile
The conflict in a story that its characters must resolve
Climax
Problem
Resolution
Plot
The most important idea in a text (main idea)
Conclusion
Central Idea
Main Points
Thesis
To look for similarities
Effect
Contrast
Cause
Compare
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
Exposition
Introduction
Evidence that helps to convey the main idea of a text
Dialogue
Opinion
Fact
Inference
The person who tells a story
Protagonist
Narrator
Antagonist
Character
Point of View in which the narrator is in the story AND uses the pronouns I, me, my
1st Person
3rd Person Limited
2nd Person
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
3rd Person Limited
1st Person
2nd Person
3rd Person Omniscient
