Cite & Evidence
This word means to quote or reference directly from the text; students use it to support answers with specific details
What is "cite"?
This term describes the central message or life lesson of a text.
(Answer: What is "theme"?)
The person who takes part in the action of a story.
(Answer: Who is a "character"?)
A text organized by time order uses this structure name.
(Answer: What is "chronological order"?)
A comparison using "like" or "as."
(Answer: What is a "simile"?)
These are facts or details from the text used to support a claim or answer. Name the term.
What is "evidence"?
The author uses plot events and character choices over time to make the theme do this.
(Answer: What is "develop" or "emerge"?)
The sequence of events that make up a story.
(Answer: What is the "plot"?)
When a passage explains an issue and ways to fix it, the text uses which structure?
(Answer: What is "problem and solution"?)
Giving human traits to non-human things is called this.
(Answer: What is "personification"?)
When a detail is clearly stated in the text (not implied), it is called this.
What is "explicit"?
A short, objective retelling of the main ideas of a text is called this.
(Answer: What is "summary" or "objective summary"?)
This element tells where and when a story happens and can affect the mood.
(Answer: What is "setting"?)
Compare-and-contrast organization focuses on doing this between ideas or texts.
(Answer: What is "showing similarities and differences"?)
This rhetorical device repeats the same beginning sound in nearby words to create rhythm.
(Answer: What is "alliteration"?)
Use this term for drawing a conclusion based on clues in the text when the author does not state it directly.
(Answer: What is "infer"?)
Name one literary device from Tier 3 that an author might use to hint at a future event and help develop theme.
(Answer: What is "foreshadowing"?)
The main problem or struggle the characters face in a story.
(Answer: What is "conflict"?)
What term describes the "important parts" of a text that help develop ideas across sections?
(Answer: What are "major sections"?)
A figure of speech comparing unlike things without using "like" or "as."
(Answer: What is a "metaphor"?)
Name the two-word phrase meaning enough and appropriate support for a claim (one word from Tier 1 and one from Tier 3 list).
(Answer: What is "relevant evidence" or "sufficient evidence"?)
Explain (term only) the process students should use to identify how a theme develops across a text using plot, character, and symbols.
(Answer: What is "analyze development" or simply "analyze"?)
Name and define the story part that shows the turning point or most intense moment.
(Answer: What is the "climax"?)
Name the text structure that shows one event leading to another and often explains reasons and results.
(Answer: What is "cause and effect"?)
Name the device that uses extreme exaggeration and give its term only.
(Answer: What is "hyperbole"?)