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