Literature
Main idea taken from the beginning, middle and end of the text are combined to make this.
What is a central idea?
Example: The trees sighed in the afternoon breeze.
What is personification?
The organization of a piece of writing.
What is structure?
Two words that have the same meaning.
What is a synonym?
Type of writing that shares information from a text/Explaining what the text says.
What is informational/explanatory writing?
The specific order of a series of events that form a story; a storyline.
What is a plot?
Example: Recess was a zoo!
What is a metaphor?
The attitude of an author expressed through the author's choice of words and language.
What is tone?
Two words that have opposite meaning.
What is an antonym?
Features an author uses to organize the text. Examples - a topic sentence, an introduction, body paragraphs, headings, footnotes, italics, or graphics.
What are textual features?
If a story is about two friends who like to do things together, then the ________________ of the story might be the importance of friendship.
What is a theme?
Example: My father can lift two tons!
What is a hyperbole?
When you make a claim or take a side in writing.
What is an argumentative writing?
The exact dictionary definition of a word.
What is denotation?
The author’s reason for writing.
P.I.E. = to persuade, to inform, or to entertain.
What is author's purpose?
To persuade (argumentative)
To inform (informational or explanatory)
To entertain (stories, narratives)
The exact words a character is saying. Each time a new character speaks, a new paragraph begins.
What is dialogue?
Example: The beautiful butterfly blew by the bay.
What is alliteration?
This is a relationship in which one thing causes another thing to happen. Example: We were tardy to school because the bus was late.
What is cause and effect?
Note: Cause always occurs first.
Cause: the bus was late
Effect: we were tardy to school
The implied meaning. The meaning the author intended. The nonliteral meaning.
What is connotation?
Statements that can be proven. Statements that aren't arguable.
What is a fact?
(vs. opinion)
Stories have conflicts/problems; this gives the reader a solution to the problem.
What is a resolution?
Example: The new student is a regular Einstein.
What is an allusion?
The order in which a series of events happened. A text that is arranged in order of time from the beginning to the end.
What is chronological order?
To come to a reasonable conclusion based on evidence found in the text. To make an educated guess based on clues or evidence from text.
What is implicit? -OR- What is an inference?
In argumentative writing when you recognize the other side but then explain why your view is correct.
What is counter claim?