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