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The main reason an author has for writing a text. (to explain, express, inform, or persuade)
Text Structure
Author's Purpose
Point of View
Claim
To look for differences
Effect
Compare
Cause
Contrast
The emotion or judgement that a word expresses
Reference
Connotation
Definition
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
Metaphor
Personification
Hyperbole
A type of figurative language that makes a comparison without using like or as
Metaphor
Hyperbole
Personification
Simile
A type of figurative language that attributes humanlike qualities to something that is nonhuman
Simile
Metaphor
Personification
Hyperbole
The conflict in a story that its characters must resolve
Climax
Problem
Plot
Resolution
Something that brings about an effect or a result
Contrast
Compare
Effect
Cause
The most important idea in a text (main idea)
Central Idea
Thesis
Main Points
Conclusion
To look for similarities
Cause
Compare
Effect
Contrast
The result of a cause
Compare
Contrast
Cause
Effect
The dictionary definition of a word
Synonym
Connotation
Antonym
Denotation
The end of a piece of writing that sums up the writer's main points; how a conflict is solved
Exposition
Conclusion
Beginning
Introduction
Name that tune!
Last Friday Night
Roar
Dark Horse
Firework
Evidence that helps to convey the main idea of a text
Opinion
Inference
Fact
Main Points
