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
Cause
Compare
Effect
Contrast
The emotion or judgement that a word expresses
Definition
Reference
Denotation
Connotation
A person, animal or other creature that takes part in the action of a story or poem
Character
Plot
Resolution
Protagonist
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
Metaphor
Simile
A type of figurative language that attributes humanlike qualities to something that is nonhuman
Metaphor
Simile
Personification
Hyperbole
The conflict in a story that its characters must resolve
Climax
Plot
Resolution
Problem
The most important idea in a text (main idea)
Central Idea
Main Points
Thesis
Conclusion
To look for similarities
Effect
Cause
Compare
Contrast
The result of a cause
Compare
Cause
Contrast
Effect
The end of a piece of writing that sums up the writer's main points; how a conflict is solved
Conclusion
Exposition
Introduction
Beginning
Evidence that helps to convey the main idea of a text
Inference
Fact
Opinion
Dialogue
The person who tells a story
Protagonist
Antagonist
Character
Narrator
Point of View in which the narrator is in the story AND uses the pronouns I, me, my
1st Person
3rd Person Omniscient
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
3rd Person Limited
2nd Person
3rd Person Omniscient
1st Person
