Vocabulary 1
A conclusion reached on the basis of evidence and reasoning.
What is Inferencing
The highest point in the plot where the problem/ conflict reaches its peak
What is Climax
Figurative language in which non-human things or abstractions are represented as having human qualities.
What is Personification?
An intentional and extreme exaggeration for emphasis or effect
What is Hyperbole?
Picture or image within a text
What is Graphic Feature?
A figure of speech involving the comparision of one thing with another thing of a different kind.
What is Smilie
The words, sentences, or passages that precede or follow a specific word sentence of passage.
What is context
The central or universal idea of a literary work that often relates to morals and or values and speaks to the human experience or condition
What is Theme?
To reduce large sections of text to their essential points and main idea.
What is Summarize?
Steps in a process or event.
What is Sequential Order?
A figure of speech that makes a comparision between two non similar things.
Metaphor
The type or class of a work, usually categorized by form, techinque or content, example fiction, non-fiction, poetry.
What is Genre
The author's particular attitude, either stated or implied in writing
What is Tone?
Specific details or facts that support an inference or idea
What is Evidence?
An author's unique articulation or expression of language created by stylistic elements
What is Voice?
The key information that the author wants you to understand.
What is Main Idea
Language not intended to be taken literally but layered with meaning through the use of imagery, metaphors, and other literary devices.
What is Figurative Language
The conclusion or final outcome of a story that in some capacity resolves all problems and conflicts
What is Resolution?
Important ideas throughout a work that support the cental message, tone, theme
What is Key Ideas?
A text in which the writer develops and defends a position or debates a topic usinglogic and persuasion
What is Argumentative Text?
The reason an author writes about a particular topic.
What is Author's Purpose?
The opposition of persons or forces that brings about dramatic action central to the plot of a story
What is Conflict?
The main character in a narrative who is at the center of the story
What is Protagonist?
Arranged in order of time
What is Chronological Order?
An assertion , position or arguable thesis about a topic or issue.
What is Claim