Themes & Summaries
The message of a story or text that you can apply to real life.
What is the theme?
The emotional or cultural meaning attached to a word beyond its dictionary definition.
What is connotation?
the information or details from the text that support your answer
What is textual evidence?
This word means the main person the story is about.
What is the character (or protagonist)?
This type of word names a person, place, thing, or idea.
What is a noun?
look for repeated ideas and key details
How do you identify theme?
The time and place in which the story takes place
What is setting?
When using text evidence, you should always do this after quoting
What is explain how it supports your answer?
When a character goes on a quest, they are usually trying to do this.
What is reach a goal (or solve a problem)?
This punctuation mark ends a question.
What is a question mark?
If a story shows a character learning to forgive a friend, this might be the theme.
What is forgiveness or the importance of friendship?
When you compare two unlike things using like or as.
What is simile?
If a story says, “The clouds grew dark and thunder rumbled,” what evidence supports the idea that a storm is coming?
What is the dark clouds and thunder?
The obstacles and struggles a character faces on their quest are called this.
What are challenges or conflicts?
Correct nouns, beginnings of sentences, and I should be..
What is capitalized?
This type of writing tells only the most important ideas of a text without adding opinions.
What is a summary?
The dictionary definition of a word
What is denotation?
This phrase means you use exact words from the story to support your point.
What is a direct quote?
In many stories, characters change or grow during their quest. This change is called __________.
What is character development?
This part of speech describes a noun, giving more detail about it.
What is an adjective?
True or False: A good summary should include every small detail from the story.
What is false?
the use of exaggeration for example of effect
What is hyperbole?
True or False: Good text evidence can come from both what the text says directly and what it implies (inference).
What is True?
True or False: A character’s quest is always about finding something physical, like an object.
What is false?
a sentence with an independent and dependent clause joined by a conjunction
What is a complex sentence?