Lit Terms 1
What is the main point the author wants you to understand?
What is the main idea?
What is a way to figure out the meaning of a word using nearby words?
What are context clues?
What is a guess based on clues from the text?
What is an inference?
What is the main character in a story called?
What is protagonist?
What is the reason an author writes a story?
What is the authors purpose?
What is the sentence that tells what the whole paragraph is mostly about?
What is the Topic sentence?
What is using examples in a sentence to help define a word?
What are example clues?
What is understanding something the author does not say directly?
What is reading between the lines?
What is the place and time of a story called?
What is setting
What is writing to teach or explain something called?
What is to inform?
What is the idea that sums up the story in one sentence?
What is the summary?
What is looking for synonyms in the sentence to understand a word?
What are synonym clues?
What is combining what you read with what you already know?
What is using prior knowledge?
What is the problem in a story called?
What is conflict?
What is writing to entertain the reader called?
What is to entertain?
What is the big message that connects all the details?
What is the central idea?
What is using antonyms in the sentence to find a words meaning?
What are antonym clues?
What is figuring out how a character feels without being told?
What is making an inference about feelings?
What is the series of events that happen in a story?
What is plot?
What is writing to convince someone called?
What is to persuade?
What is the main idea when its not directly stated in the text?
What is an implied main idea?
What is the meaning of an unknown word guessed by reading the whole paragraph?
What is using context to determine meaning?
What is drawling a conclusion using evidence from the story?
What is a conclusion?
What is the solution to the problem in a story called?
What is the resolution?
What is the authors reason shown through word choice and tone?
What is tone?