Author's Point of View
The vantage point in which a story is told.
Point of view.
To tell a story that you would enjoy and make you laugh.
Entertain
The fluency, rhythm, and liveliness in a story that make it unique to the writer. Your written personality or style you write with.
Voice
A physical diagram or pictorial device that shows relationships in a story. Example: venndiagram, web, story map.
Graphic Organizer
To examine or judge carefully.
Evaluate
When the person telling the story is the main character.
First person point of view
The author's reason for writing
Author's purpose
The attitude of the author towards the characters. [Hint: They express it through their writing!]
Tone
The title at a start of page or section, usually in bold or bigger font size.
Heading
A judgment based on reasoning rather than something stated directly in the passage.
Inference
Bonus: A personal statement that cannot be proven.
Opinion
To give information about a certain topic, and to explain why it is important.
Inform
How the author writes, and how it describes the main idea and story.
Style
A subsection of a heading.
To restate the most important information in a text.
Summarize
The narrator is talking to "you"
Second Person
To CONVINCE readers to feel a certain way about a topic
Persuasive
The clear and easy expression of ideas, either written or spoken.
Fluency
A visual aid that takes information into rows, lists, or lines
Charts, tables, or graphs
Text that is next to photo or graphic
Caption
Point of view when the author is not a character in the story. Pronouns: Them, They
Third Person Point of view
Bonus: Statement that can be proven true with evidence.
Facts
A center of interest or attention
Photos or images in an article or story
Graphics
To restate a text or passage in other words.
Paraphrase