Elements of Fiction
The perspective from which a story is told.
What is Point of View?
The most important point an author makes about a topic in a nonfiction text.
What is the central idea (or main idea)?
The central idea or message about life conveyed in a work of literature.
What is theme?
Strong evidence from the text shows that your ideas are based on the text, making your argument more convincing and doing this for your point.
What is proving your point?
These are hints in the surrounding text that readers can use to infer the meaning of unfamiliar words.
What are context clues?
This is the sequence of events in a story—the beginning, middle, and end.
What is Plot?
The process of condensing a large amount of information into a shorter, concise version.
What is summarizing?
The subject of the literary work, usually expressed as a single noun, that is different from the theme.
What is the topic?
Citing evidence correctly makes your writing clearer and this quality, similar to how scientists use data.
What is credible?
This type of language is used for a descriptive effect, often to illustrate or imply ideas indirectly.
What is figurative language?
The three "levels" of the Third-Person Point of View.
What are Limited, Omniscient, and Objective?
Identifying the main idea helps you distinguish between this and less important details.
What is essential information?
If the theme isn’t stated directly, the reader must use clues and reasoning to perform this skill.
What is infer it?
Analyzing and selecting the best evidence to support your thinking sharpens this type of skill.
What is critical thinking?
This is what figurative language creates in a text, making writing more vivid and engaging.
What are strong images and deeper meanings?
The point when a big event or decision leads to the problem's resolution.
What is the Turning Point (Or the resolution)?
This is what you must always do when putting the main ideas from another source into your own words.
What is giving the author credit (or citing the source)?
Theme gives a story deeper meaning and connects it to these kinds of overarching ideas or lessons.
What are universal ideas or lessons?
The two most important skills a student becomes better at by citing strong textual evidence.
What are reading and writing?
Using context clues saves time and helps you understand what you're reading without doing this.
What is stopping to look up words?
The importance of plot is that it structures the story, showing these kinds of relationships.
What are cause-and-effect relationships?
Understanding the main idea in a news article is essential for making this kind of decision about current events.
What is an informed decision?
This literary element can have more than one central idea, which may be revealed gradually through characters, setting, and plot.
What is theme?
This real-world example of a career field uses data from experiments in the same way a student uses textual evidence to support an analysis.
What is a science report (or a science career)?
To analyze the impact of word choice and interpret figurative language, readers must use this, which includes when and where a text was written.
What is context?