Literature/Informational Text- A
To examine something carefully and explain it in detail.
Analyze
A statement or opinion that can be supported with evidence.
Claim
Words or phrases around an unfamiliar word that help explain its meaning.
Context Clues
A category or type of literature.
Genre
The lesson or message of a text.
Theme
A claim supported with reasons and evidence.
Argument
To use details or quotes from a text to support an answer.
Cite Evidence
A conversation between characters.
Dialogue
Extreme exaggeration used for effect.
Hyperbole
To briefly explain the most important parts.
Summarize
The reason an author writes a text (to inform, persuade, entertain, or explain).
Author’s Purpose
To explain how things are alike.
Compare
A story written to be performed.
Drama
A conclusion based on evidence and reasoning.
Inference
A comparison using “like” or “as.”
Simile
The main point or message of a text.
Central Idea
To explain how things are different.
Contrast
Writing meant to explain or inform.
Expository Text
The most important point in a paragraph or text.
Main Idea
The perspective from which a story is told.
Point of View
The way an author describes or develops characters.
Characterization
A struggle between opposing forces in a story.
Conflict
Language that is not meant to be taken literally, such as similes and metaphors
Figurative Language
A comparison between two unlike things without using “like” or “as.”
Metaphor
A grouped set of lines in a poem.
Stanza