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The vantage point from which a story is told.
Point of View
The clear and easy expression of ideas, either written or spoken.
Fluency
The attitude of the author toward the audience and characters.
Tone
Photographs, drawings, maps, or other pictures that give additional information about the text.
Graphics
To examine and judge carefully.
Evaluate
When the person telling the story is the main character.
First Person
The center of interest or attention.
Focus
The fluency, rhythm, and liveliness in writing that make it unique to the writer. Your written personality. The "style" you write with. (Friendly, formal, everyday, short/long sentences).
Voice
The title at the start of a page or section, usually bold or dark print.
Heading
To restate the most important information in a text.
Summarize
Point of view in which the narrator is not a character in the story. pronouns them, they (Grinch)
Third Person
To give information about a particular topic; to explain why something is important.
Inform
Text that is next to photo or graphic.
Caption
A secondary heading, the mini-topic related to the heading.
Subheading
To restate a text or passage into other words, often to show understanding or to clarify the meaning.
Paraphrase
The narrator is talking to "you" (Burger King - "Have it YOUR way." , self help books, advertisements)
Second Person
To convince others to feel a particular way about a topic.
Persuade
Statements that cannot be proven true.
Opinions
A visual aid that condenses information into a series of rows, lines, or other shortened lists.
Charts, Tables, and Graphs
Third person point of view where the narrator knows what ALL the characters are thinking and feeling.
Third Person Omniscient
To tell a story that makes you laugh.
Entertain
How the author writes; an author's use of language; it effects and appropriateness to the author's intent and theme.
Style
A diagram or pictorial device that shows relationship.
Graphic Organizer
A judgment based on reasoning rather than something stated directly in the passage. "Reading between the lines."
Inference
Third person point of view which the narrator knows what ONLY the main character is thinking and feeling.
Third Person Limited