The main reason an author has for writing a text. (to explain, express, inform, or persuade)
Text Structure
Claim
Author's Purpose
Point of View
Where and when a story takes place
Plot
Theme
Setting
Resolution
The end of a piece of writing that sums up the writer's main points; how a conflict is solved
Conclusion
Introduction
Exposition
Beginning
A word that is used in place of a noun
Verb
Adjective
Pronoun
Noun
The person who tells a story
Protagonist
Antagonist
Character
Narrator
"After the race I slept for a week!" is an example of
personifcation
alliteration
sleeping
hyperbole
A type of figurative language that compares two unlike things using the words like or as
Hyperbole
Metaphor
Simile
Personification
"The warm fireplace pulled me close." is an example of
simile
alliteration
metaphor
personification
To restate the main points of a text
Summarize
Main Idea
Main Points
Evidence
What element of writing should begin the story and grab readers' attention?
dialogue
lead
details
conclusion
To look for similarities
Effect
Contrast
Compare
Cause
The most important idea in a text (main idea)
Central Idea
Conclusion
Thesis
Main Points
The central message of a text
Main Idea
Theme
Lesson
Central Idea
Evidence that helps to convey the main idea of a text
Fact
Inference
Opinion
Dialogue
The conflict in a story that its characters must resolve
Resolution
Problem
Plot
Climax
What ALWAYS needs to be capitalized in a sentence?
The first letter of the first word
All of these
The word "I"
Proper Nouns
The result of a cause
Compare
Contrast
Cause
Effect
A type of figurative language that makes a comparison without using like or as
Metaphor
Personification
Hyperbole
Simile
The solution to the problem or the part of the plot that takes place at the end of the story
Exposition
Climax
Resolution
Introduction
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
To look for differences
Effect
Cause
Compare
Contrast
The main part of a word
Suffix
Root
Ending
Prefix
A type of figurative language that attributes humanlike qualities to something that is nonhuman
Simile
Metaphor
Personification
Hyperbole
"Can cats consume compost?" is an example of...
hyperbole
personification
alliteration
similie
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 Limited
3rd Person Omniscient
2nd Person
"My mom is my rock." is an example of
comparison
simile
hyperbole
metaphor
The emotion or judgement that a word expresses
Connotation
Denotation
Reference
Definition
A person, animal or other creature that takes part in the action of a story or poem
Character
Protagonist
Plot
Resolution