Literary Text
Literary Text 2
Academic Vocabulary
Academic Vocabulary 2
Nonfiction Text
100

The person telling the story.

Who is the Narrator?

100

Time and place of a story: when and where.

What is setting?

100
the big pic of an expository text 

What is main idea?

100
The reason the author wrote the piece.
What is author's purpose?
100

The first sentence of the essay that grabs the readers' attention.

What is a hook?

200
How the reader feels in response to the text.
What is mood?
200

The problem that drives the story and creates the action.

What is conflict?

200

The P in RAP; using support to back up your ideas

What is a text evidence?

200
Positive or negative emotions associated with a word based on the context in which it is used.
What is connotation?
200

the controlling idea of a text 

What is thesis

300
The author's attitude toward the topic.
What is tone?
300
The universal lesson, moral, or message the reader should learn from a story.
What is theme?
300

the strategy used to answer a short-constructed response (SCR) 

What is RAP (restate answer provide evidence)?

300
The strategy you will use if you do not know the meaning of a word on the EOC that is important to the question or potential answer choice? 

What is use the dictionary embeded or ask for a physical dictionary?

300

To move smoothly from one topic to the next.

What is a transition?

400

the sequence of events in the story

What is a plot?

400

an object that stands for something else such as an idea

i.e. lion = bravery

What is symbolism?

400

A hint of what will happen in the future later in the story.

What is foreshadowing (to foreshadow)?

400

The processes used to add omit or change written works to fix errors or improve it

What is revise and edit? 

400

the position or stance on a subject

What is claim?

500

The narrator is a character in the story (characterized by the use of I, me, and my).

What is 1st person point of view?

500
The narrator is outside the story (characterized by the use of he, she, they, them, etc.)
What is 3rd person point of view?
500

the purpose of asking for scratch paper during the EOC 

What is planning for the ECR?

500

reading between the lines to come to a conclusion

what the text says + your schema (what you know)

What is inference (to infer)?

500

the opposite stance of the author's

What is counterclaim/counterargument?

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