Unit 1
An educated guess.
What is inference?
The main subject or idea in a story that is the most important.
What is a central(main) idea?
This is also known as an argument or opinion to create one.
What is claim?
Different ways that a narrator can tell a story.
What is POV?
A tool that could be used to find the meaning of a word.
What is a dictionary?
The structure of events that make up a story.
What is plot?
The lesson, moral, or lesson in a story.
What is theme?
You must have this to support any answers.
What is evidence?
Telling a story into your own words by including the main idea and details.
What is summarizing?
This POV has 2 categories?
What is 3rd person limited and 3rd person omniscient.
A type of language used to emphasize an author's way of writing.
What is figurative language.
A text that is not true.
What is fiction?
A type of figurative language: "This test is a piece of cake."
What is a metaphor?
This type of text provide you with facts and events that are true.
What is an informational text?
A type of figurative language: "The leaves danced in the wind".
What is personification?
Taking side notes and using marks as you read a text.
What is Annotating?
How an author may sound or feel as they are writing a story,
What is mood/tone?
This may be PRINT or GRAPHIC.
What are text features?
The way the author may organize a text.
What is Text Structures?
The STAAR test has multiple sections, but this one is always at the end.
What is revise and edit?
These are 2 types of responses used to analyze a character.
What is internal and external?
MAPS, DIAGRAMS, PHOTOGRAPHS, CHARTS.
What are Graphic features.
BOLD, ITALICS, UNDERLINED, HIGHLIGHTED.
What are print features?
The 5 purposes that an author may write a story.
What is PIE'ED (Persuade, Inform, Entertain, Explain, Describe)
The the 5 elements of plot.
What is Exposition, Rising Action, Climax, Falling Action, Resolution.