figurative language
Giving a nonhuman human characteristics
What is personification?
Helps support the topic sentence, claim, or thesis statment.
What is the "best evidence?"
where and when an event takes place in a short story
What is setting
It is what the passage or paragraph is about.
What is the main idea?
What is to inform?
a direct comparison of two different things
What is metaphor
Includes aspects like titles, subtitles, headings, pictures, and graphs.
What are text features?
the most intense or exciting high point of a short story
What is climax
The reason why an author writes.
What is Author's Purpose?
The Purpose of Argumentative/Opinion
What is to persuade or convince?
An underlying message or the big idea of a story.
What is the theme?
the main events of a short story
What is plot
When you do not know the definition and you have to look around the word.
What is context clues?
The Purpose of Narrative or Fiction
What is to entertain?
The a brief, overall summary of what the entire story or text is about
What is the central idea or main idea?
the lesson or moral of a story
What is theme
The feeling the author wants the reader to get.
What is mood?
The purpose of the thesis statement
What is sets the stage or explains the main idea of the essay?
What are context clues?
the perspective from which the story's told
What is point of view
The vocabulary an author uses to show how he or she feels about a topic.
What is tone?
What are the hook, the bridge, and the thesis statement?