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