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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
 
Contrast
 
Cause
 
Effect
 
Compare
The emotion or judgement that a word expresses
 
Connotation
 
Denotation
 
Definition
 
Reference
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
 
Simile
 
Metaphor
 
Personification
 
Hyperbole
A type of figurative language that makes a comparison without using like or as
 
Metaphor
 
Simile
 
Personification
 
Hyperbole
A type of figurative language that attributes humanlike qualities to something that is nonhuman
 
Personification
 
Simile
 
Metaphor
 
Hyperbole
The conflict in a story that its characters must resolve
 
Problem
 
Plot
 
Resolution
 
Climax
Something that brings about an effect or a result
 
Cause
 
Effect
 
Compare
 
Contrast
The most important idea in a text (main idea)
 
Central Idea
 
Conclusion
 
Main Points
 
Thesis
To look for similarities 
 
Compare
 
Cause
 
Effect
 
Contrast
The result of a cause
 
Effect
 
Cause
 
Compare
 
Contrast 
The dictionary definition of a word 
 
Denotation
 
Connotation
 
Synonym 
 
Antonym 
The end of a piece of writing that sums up the writer's main points; how a conflict is solved
 
Conclusion
 
Beginning
 
Exposition
 
Introduction
Name that tune!
 
Roar
 
Dark Horse
 
Firework
 
Last Friday Night
Evidence that helps to convey the main idea of a text
 
Fact
 
Main Points
 
Opinion
 
Inference
An educated guess based on evidence in a text and what you already know
 
Inference
 
Evidence
 
Opinion
 
Fact
The person who tells a story
 
Narrator
 
Character
 
Protagonist
 
Antagonist
A view that someone takes on a certain issue based on a personal judgement
 
Opinion
 
Fact
 
Inference
 
Evidence
Point of View that uses the pronouns I, me, my
 
1st Person
 
2nd Person
 
3rd Person Limited
 
3rd Person Omniscient
Point of View that is told from the "you" perspective
 
2nd Person
 
1st Person
 
3rd Person Limited
 
3rd Person Omniscient
Point of View told by a narrator and you only know the thoughts and feelings of one character
 
3rd Person Limited
 
1st Person
 
2nd Person
 
3rd Person Omniscient
Point of View when you know the thoughts and feelings of more than one character 
 
3rd Person Omniscient
 
1st Person
 
2nd Person
 
3rd Person Limited
The series of related events that build toward the climax of a story 
 
Plot
 
Introduction
 
Resolution
 
Rising Action
The solution to the problem or the part of the plot that takes place after the climax
 
Resolution
 
Exposition
 
Introduction
 
Climax
A word that is used in place of a noun
 
Pronoun
 
Adjective
 
Noun
 
Verb
The main part of a word
 
Root 
 
Prefix
 
Suffix
 
Ending
Where and when a story takes place
 
Setting
 
Resolution
 
Theme
 
Plot
How a text is organized, such as sequence, cause and effect, or compare and contrast 
 
Text Structure
 
Text Set Up
 
Author's Purpose
 
Text Type
The central message of a text
 
Theme
 
Lesson
 
Main Idea
 
Central Idea
To restate the main points of a text
 
Summarize
 
Main Idea
 
Main Points
 
EvidenceÂ