Theme and Summary
This term refers to the central lesson, message, or moral about life that an author wants the reader to take away from a story.
What is theme?
This term describes a logical conclusion or educated guess drawn by combining text clues with your own background knowledge.
What is an inference?
What are the different perspective of a story called?
What is the point of view?
The Greek/Latin root spect (found in words like spectator, inspect, and spectacles) means this.
What is to look or to see?
Words or sentences surrounding an unfamiliar word that help a reader figure out its meaning are called these.
What are context clues?
Unlike a detailed story retelling, an objective summary must strictly leave this out.
What are personal opinions?
Information that is directly and plainly stated in the text, requiring no guessing, is described as this.
What is explicit evidence?
This major turning point or moment of highest tension in a narrative directly leads to the resolution of the conflict.
What is the climax?
The root lumin or lum (found in words like illuminate and luminous) means this.
What is light?
A context clue that provides a word with the opposite meaning of the unfamiliar word is known as this type of clue.
What is an antonym (or contrast clue)?
To determine the central theme of a text, a reader should pay close attention to how the main character responds to this during the story.
What is the conflict?
When answering a reading comprehension question, strong text evidence should directly do this.
What is support or prove the claim/answer?
The mood or atmosphere of a scene can be heavily influenced by this detail, such as time period or environment.
What is setting?
Adding a prefix or suffix to a word changes its meaning or part of speech; this core part of the word contains its primary meaning.
What is the root (or base word)?
Words with similar meanings provided in surrounding sentences to help define a target word are called this.
What are synonyms?
A theme statement should be phrased as a universal statement, meaning it must not include these specific elements of a story.
What are character names, specific settings, or plot details?
When selecting evidence to support an inference, a reader must choose details that directly relate to the question rather than details that are merely interesting or this.
What is irrelevant (or off-topic)?
Authors reveal a character's traits and motivations through their actions, dialogue, thoughts using this.
What is characterization?
The root aud or audi (found in words like audience, auditory, and audio) means this.
What is to hear or sound?
An inference is a conclusion reached by combining information stated in the text with this personal knowledge.
What is background knowledge (or schema)?
This type of summary includes only the most important plot points (beginning, middle, and end) without inserting bias or judgment.
What is an objective summary?
When selecting the best textual evidence to support an inference, a reader should look for a direct quote or specific sentence that provides the strongest this.
What is proof (or justification)?
In narrative structure, the background information introduced at the beginning of a story about characters and setting is called this.
What is the exposition?
The root tract (found in words like attract, distract, and tractor) means this.
What is to pull or drag?
What is exposition?
The beginning of a narrative where setting, character, and conflict are introduced.