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