OH...ESSS...TEA
To briefly share the main points of something
Summarize
Your smile is like a ray of sunshine
Simile
What the text is mainly about
You must ALWAYS do this for every piece of evidence and for every date....
Introduce evidence
This word means to take charge and make something happen
Initiate
To give the meaning (definition) of something
Define
The boy was a bear in the China shop
Metaphor
Lesson learned from the story
Theme
The sentence that tells the reader what that one paragraph is about.
Topic Sentence
This word means that there's a relationship between two things, a cause and effect
Correlation
To figure something out by using evidence and reasoning; “reading between the lines”
Infer
It's raining cats and dogs
Hyperbole
The "vibes" / "energy" / "feeling" of the text
Mood
Support for your thesis and topic sentences
Evidence
Means large, huge, important...
Colossal
To show; to explain something in clear terms
Demonstrate
Kenny Chesney chucked a chicken charging the church
Alliteration
The reason behind why a text was written
Author's Purpose
The answer to the prompt, hold the reasons. (The main argument of an essay)
Claim
Means final, that's it.
Definite
To examine something in detail in order to understand it
Analyze
The frog was taking a jog
Personification
The structure and organization of a story
Plot
Ask yourself "why" and "how" to write the heart and soul the essay
justification
Knowledge that was said before turned about to be false
Pretense