Vocabulary
To give credit to the people who have done work that you are using and benefiting from
What is cite.
Information from the text that explains the main idea
What is supporting detail .
A brief outline of what happens in a story in your own words; a description of the central idea and the most important supporting ideas of an informational text,
What is summary .
Exposition
What is sets the tone for the story and introduces the setting and the characters.
rhyme scheme
What is the pattern of rhyme at the end of lines .
Ideas or thoughts that are only suggested by the details in the text, not directly expressed by the author.
What is implicit.
Explicit
What is Information directly stated in a text; facts and details authors want to tell the readers directly
A group of lines in a poem set apart from other lines with a space; also a verse.
What is stanza.
Theme
What is the overall message of a story; a general statement about life that the author wants the reader to think about .
verse
What is a group of lines in a poem set apart from other lines by a space, also called a stanza.
Information that comes from the passage or essay that you are reading, not from your own life or another text
What is textual evidence.
A summary of a text with personal feelings, opinions and biases.
What is subjective
The main idea about life that the author wants the reader to think about; the author’s most important message for the reader
What is central idea.
repetition
What is when a writer sues a word, phrase, or line more than once to emphasize an idea or create a mood.
When two or more words next to or near one another begin with the same consonant sound.
What is alliteration.
setting
What is when and where a story takes place.
Objective
What is Only the facts in a text without any opinions .
plot
What is the series of events that makeup a story.
Main Idea
What is The most important idea that the author wants the reader to remember; what the story is mostly about .
When the reader looks at events in the story an how the characters act and change during the story to discover the theme or central idea
What is to analyze.
An analysis.
What is a detailed study of the text.
A person or creature that a story is about
What is character.
Inference
What is an educated guess about an author’s purpose or meaning assembled from clues in a text.
rhyme
What is when different words end with the same sound .
conflict
What is the main problem or struggle in a story.