Main Idea
Information that supports the main idea.
Main Idea/ Central Idea
Giving an animal or object human traits
Personification
The main events that happen in a story
Plot
A character from the book is telling the story
1st person POV
Information that is important to the text
Relevant
The similarities between two events, settings, characters, or themes
Compare
A comparison using like or as
Simile
The text you are asked to read
Passage/ Excerpt
The reason the author is writing.
Author's purpose
Hints that an author gives you to help you define a difficult term or word
Context clues
Saying or guessing what will happen in the future using text evidence to support your answer
Predicting
An exaggeration
Hyperbole
A quick version of the story
Summary
Talking someone into doing something using reasons
Persuade
Existing or occurring before
Previous
The order of events in a story
Sequence of events
Word describing a sound
Onomatopoeia
What is the problem in the story and how it is solved
Conflict/ Resolution
The style of writing
Genre
Characterization
Using prior knowledge and text evidence to come up with a conclusion
Inference
An expression that means something different than it actually says
Idiom
How the text is organized.
Text Structure
Text that describe real events or have face
Nonfiction
What do things stand for or represent
Symbolism