POV
The perspective from which a story is told, or who is telling the story.
Point of View/ POV
Words or sentences around an unknown word that help you figure out its meaning.
The main reason an author writes a fiction book like Charlotte's Web.
Entertain
The time and place where a story happens?
What is the setting?
The main problem that the characters face and try to solve throughout the story.
Conflict/ Problem
A story told by a narrator who is a character in the story, using words like I, me, and we.
1st Person POV
In the sentence: "The gigantic dog blocked the whole hallway," gigantic means this.
big/huge
The three main reasons an author writes, often remembered by the acronym P.I.E.
Persuade, Inform, and Entertain
Words like "yesterday," "long ago," or "in the future" tell the reader about this specific part of the setting
What is time?
How the main problem in the story is finally solved at the very end.
Resolution
A story told by an outside narrator who is not in the story, using words like he, she, and they.
A context clue where the author uses a word that means the opposite of the tricky word.
antonym
f an article is full of statistics, numbers, and true facts about the solar system, the author wrote it to do this for the reader.
Inform
Clues in the text that tell you exactly where the story is taking place, like describing a sandy beach or a crowded classroom?
What is the place / location?
The central message, moral, or life lesson that the author wants the reader to learn.
Theme
A story where the main character is talking directly to you, the reader, using words like "you" and "your" is written in this rare POV.
2nd Person POV
In the sentence: "She was furious, or very angry, when she dropped her ice cream," the author uses this type of clue to explain furious.
synonym
A billboard on the highway telling you to vote for a specific person or buy a certain brand of cereal is written with this purpose.
Persuade
True or False: The setting of a story can change multiple times between the beginning and the end
True
True or False Honesty is the best policy is a theme?
True
How a reader can figure out a character's perspective or feelings if the narrator doesn't explicitly state them.
Thoughts, Actions, Words
The first step you should take when you hit a word you don't know while reading fiction.
Reading the sentences before and after the word
To figure out why an author wrote a text, a reader should pay close attention to the facts, opinions, and these types of words used in the writing.
Clues and Details
Beside the time and the place, the setting can also include this kind of natural condition, like a blizzard, a sunny day, or a heatwave.
weather
The difference between the plot and the theme is that the plot is what happens, while the theme is this.
The deeper meaning / universal message