Point of view that uses the pronouns you and your.
second person
a detailed third-person account of another person's life story.
Biographical Text
Sierra Leone
The central, or most important, idea in a paragraph or passage
Main Idea
The most important person in a narrative.
Main Character
Point of view that uses pronouns such as I, My, We, Us and,Our.
First person
nonfiction writing, written with the intention of informing the reader about a specific topic
Informational text
The children who lost both parents in the Civil War were called?
War Orphans
A lesson or moral of a story
Theme
The time and place of a story
setting
Name of a SPECIFIC person, place, thing, or idea.
proper noun
literature created from the imagination,
Fiction
What skin condition did DePrince suffer from?
Vitiligo
An author's reason or intent for writing.
authors purpose
The turning point or most exciting part in a story
climax
Point of view that uses pronouns such as He, She, they, and them.
Third person
an old story that's been told again and again, often for generations
A folktale
The photo of the ballerina.
It is a story
narrative
It is an element of the plot where the problem is introduced
rising action
The narrator is not a character in the story but knows what every character is thinking and feeling.
Third-person Omniscient
language that is actually true.
Literal language
How did Michaela finally leave the orphanage?
She was adopted by a woman who had lost two sons to AIDS.
One strategy which involves looking at the other words in a sentence
using context clues
Combining what you know with what you read and making a guess is called
making inferences