This element of plot includes all decisions, characters’ flaws and background circumstances that together create turns and twists leading to a climax; follows the exposition
What is rising action?
100
Language that appeals to one or more of the five senses of sight, hearing, smell, taste, and touch
What is sensory language?
100
A short restatement of a longer text in the reader’s own words; SWBST, 5Ws, etc.
What is summary?
100
In persuasive text, the author’s attitude toward or opinion about the subject
What is author's viewpoint?
100
A short part taken from a speech, book, film, etc
What is an excerpt?
200
A point of view in which the narrator is a character in the story who reveals personal thoughts and feelings, and cannot reveal the thoughts and feelings of other characters
What is first person point of view?
200
Words that express more than their literal meaning; metaphors, similes, hyperbole, personification, etc.
What is figurative language?
200
A group of words taken from a text or speech and repeated by someone other than the original author or speaker.
What is a quotation?
200
A personal belief; a statement that cannot be proven true
What is an opinion?
200
The main point a writer wants to communicate with a text
What is main idea?
300
A struggle or problem that a character in a story must resolve
What is conflict?
300
A type of figurative language that compares two unlike things or ideas by stating that one thing is something else
Example: My mind is an ocean. My words are a river.
What is metaphor?
300
An example, reason, fact, evidence, or description that backs up the main idea of a text.
What are supporting details?
300
A persuasive technique that does not rely on sound reasoning
What is a fallacy?
300
Italicized words in a drama that describe the unspoken parts of a play; where the characters are, how they are acting, and what is happening around them
What are stage directions?
400
The central message or lesson of a literary work
What is theme?
400
Exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literally.
What is hyperbole?
400
The reason an author decides to write about a specific topic; usually to inform, persuade, entertain, or explain his ideas to the reader.
What is author's purpose?
400
A statement that is arguable (debatable) but used as a primary point to support or prove an argument
What is a central argument or claim?
400
To use details, facts, and evidence from a text come to a new understanding about a topic or idea; to conclude
What is drawing conclusions?
500
Conversation between two or more people as a feature of a book, play, or movie; what a character is saying
What is dialogue?
500
A reference to a famous person, event or work of literature
What is allusion?
500
The logical structure in which text is arranged, such as a sequence, comparison and contrast, problem and solution, or cause and effect.
What is organizational pattern or text structure?
500
In persuasive text, a word or phrase that reveals the author’s feelings and rouses, or stirs, the reader’s emotions
What is a loaded term?
500
To think about the clues in the text along with your own prior knowledge in order to make an educated guess about an unstated idea; most likely