Category 1
This is written in first-person point of view and gives details about important events and people in the author's life.
What is a memoir?
Finding important details in the text using highlighting, underlining, or circling.
What is annotating?
The perspective from which a story is told or narrated.
What is point of view?
Deciding if you agree or disagree with a claim.
What is evaluating?
This is when things are closely the same.
What is similar?
This means to show or explain something.
What is express?
This is the main reason why the author wrote the text.
What is author's purpose?
Relating a piece of text to your own life.
What is connecting?
The writer's position or opinion on a topic.
What is a claim?
The evidence and reasoning that supports a claim.
What is trace?
This is someone that is narrating a poem.
Who is a speaker?
This is when an author tells an idea.
What is convey?
This is a personal narrative written in the form of a poem.
What is memoir in verse?
Looking for deeper meaning in a text.
What is analyzing?
The personalities that readers hear as they read a text.
What is voice?
Exaggerations of the truth for effect.
Words around a word or phrase that help us figure out the definition.
What are context clues?
This is another way to say the main or central idea.
What is main message?
Writing what you read in your own words.
Another way to say the main idea of the text.
What is the central idea?
A story from this perspective includes the author's personal feelings, beliefs, or opinions.
What is subjective point of view?
This is a small piece of a bigger story or text.
What is an excerpt?
This is when words are repeated over and over by the author.
What is repitition?
This is when something helps or has an impact on something in a story.
What is influence?
Using what you read to make a logical guess (makes sense)
What is infer?
The emotion the author wants the reader to feel while reading a text.
What is mood?
A story is told from this perspective when using facts not opinions.
What is objective point of view?
This is when the author makes something clear as the story goes along.
What is developing?
Words or phrases that are similar.
What is parallelism?
This is when a character changes in a story.
What is turning point?