Strategies
What is a summary?
Death, bad things to come, darkness, etc...
A book mentions that there are lots of trees on the street a character is walking along. This might suggest any of these things about the street.
It is pleasant, welcoming, fresh; it might be spring or summertime, etc.
The name of a UN Sustainability Goal.
No poverty, clean water, gender equality, zero hunger, reduced inequality, sustainable cities, climate action, etc. (there are many)
The name of the catchy first sentence of your introduction paragraph.
Hook
The term for when, based on the text, you make a guess as to what might happen next.
What is a prediction?
Reading a book that mentions a rose might make you think of these themes/ideas.
Love, romance, passion, etc.
A TV character walking through a thick fog might make you feel these things.
Scared, anxious, nervous, etc.
Society is more okay with animal cloning versus this type of cloning.
Human cloning
The three elements of a good body paragraph.
Statement of your argument, evidence, and analysis.
When a character in a story has a moment of realization.
What is an aha moment (or epiphany)?
A scene in a movie of a dove flying away might make you think of these themes/emotions.
A character in a book having bedroom walls painted yellow might tell you this about their personality.
They are happy, optimistic, cheerful, etc.
One way that reading impacts the brain.
Lowers stress, etc.
Re-statement of your thesis, allusion to all of your smaller arguments, and then a broad "mic drop" ending.
When something happens in a story that is the opposite of what you expected to happen.
What is a contrast/contradiction?
A character breaking a mirror (or finding a cracked/broken mirror) might symbolize any of these things.
Unluckiness, tragedy, worry, etc.
A book begins with a character biking through the rain to get to school. This might suggest any of these things about the character.
They are late, don't have any other means of transit, it's going to be a bad day, etc.
The first all-female spacewalk earlier this year was postponed for this reason.
Space suit didn't properly fit a second female body.
The name of your main, overall argument in your paper.
Thesis
The term for when you make an assumption about a text based on your existing knowledge or connections to the outside world.
What is inferring?
A book character referring to an owl could represent these themes/ideas.
Wisdom, intelligence, thoughtfulness, etc.
Every room in a character's home being painted a different, bright colour might suggest any of these things about the character.
They are eccentric, disjointed, all over the place, optimistic, etc.
Silence can be dangerous for these reasons.
Can promote inequity, dangerous speech; avoiding being a bystander.
All of the different things that need to be capitalized in a proper sentence.
Proper nouns (person, place, company name), and the first letter in a new sentence.