Key Ideas and Details
Quote (a passage, book, or author) as evidence for or justification of an argument or statement.
Cite
A brief statement or restatement of main points, especially as a conclusion to a work
Summary
The time and place of the action of a literary, dramatic, or cinematic work
Setting
A word that is used instead of a noun or a noun phrase
Pronoun
A rhetorical strategy and method of organization in which a writer examines similarities between two people, places, ideas, or things.
Compare
A piece of information that an author or content creator uses to support their idea or opinion.
Text Evidence
The series of events that take place. It's the action of the story that drives the narrative forward.
Plot
A division of a poem consisting of a series of lines arranged together in a usually recurring pattern of meter and rhyme.
Stanza
A punctuation mark indicating a pause between parts of a sentence. Used to separate items in a list.
Comma
A rhetorical strategy and method of organization in which a writer examines differences between two people, places, ideas, or things.
Contrast
A piece of writing, such as a book or poem, that has the purpose of telling a story or entertaining, as in a fictional novel.
Nonfiction writing, written with the intention of informing the reader about a specific topic.
Informational Text
The attitude that a character or narrator or author takes towards a given subject.
Tone
A word, clause, or sentence inserted as an explanation or afterthought into a passage that is grammatically complete without it
Parentheses
The main argument of an essay.
Claim
A conclusion reached on the basis of evidence and reasoning
Inference
A brief, overall summary of what the entire story is about. It's the backbone of a story's plot.
Central Idea
Refers to who is telling a story, or who is narrating it. The narration of a story or novel can be told in three main ways: first person, second person, and third person.
Point of View
A punctuation mark that resembles a hyphen, but longer, is used to separate part of a sentence and indicate a break. It indicates a longer pause than a comma and a semicolon.
Dash
A set of words that is complete in itself, typically containing a subject and predicate, conveying a statement, question, exclamation, or command.
Sentence
The “life lesson” that a story depicts or shows us
Theme
The bits of factual information (about setting, character, action, etc.) that help the reader understand better.
Details
A category that authors use to describe the primary content and tone of their writing.
Genre
Hints that the author gives to help define a difficult or unusual word.
Context clues
A section of the overall story that contains its own unique combination of setting, character, dialogue, and sphere of activity.
Scene