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