Literary Text (Fiction)
This is the lesson or message the author wants readers to learn from a story.
What is theme?
This is the main idea the author wants readers to understand in an informational text.
What is the central idea?
This is the sentence in an argument essay that clearly states the writer’s position.
What is a claim?
This is a source created at the time of an event by someone who experienced it.
What is a primary source?
These are clues in a sentence that help readers determine the meaning of an unknown word.
What are context clues?
This is the struggle between opposing forces in a story, such as character vs. character or character vs. self.
What is conflict?
These are the facts, examples, and details that support the central idea.
What is supporting evidence?
This type of writing is meant to explain a topic using facts, details, and examples.
What is informative writing?
This is a source written after an event by someone explaining or analyzing it.
What is a secondary source?
The dictionary meaning of a word is called this.
What is denotation?
This part of plot includes the turning point, where the main problem reaches its highest tension.
What is the climax?
This text structure explains why something happened and what happened because of it.
What is cause and effect?
This punctuation mark is used to separate items in a series and after introductory words or phrases.
What is a comma?
This is the act of using another author’s exact words and giving them credit.
What is quoting?
The prefix fore- means this.
What is before?
This is the perspective from which a story is told, such as first person or third person.
What is point of view?
This rhetorical appeal uses facts, logic, and reasoning to convince the reader.
What is logos?
A sentence with a subject and verb that cannot stand alone is this type of clause.
What is a dependent clause?
This is the illegal act of using someone else’s words or ideas without giving credit.
What is plagiarism?
The feelings or ideas connected to a word beyond its dictionary meaning are called this.
What is connotation?
When a reader uses clues from the text and what they already know to figure something out, they are doing this.
What is making an inference?
This is how the author’s word choice reveals their attitude toward a topic.
What is tone?
These words and phrases connect ideas and show relationships between claims, reasons, and evidence.
What are transitions?
This is a list of sources used in research.
What is a bibliography?
The prefix trans- means this.
What is across?