Standard 1 Vocabulary
What you take from a text in order to prove that your answer is correct.
What is evidence?
Something is shown, illustrated, or stated.
What is conveyed?
When you explain something in words.
What is describe?
A small group of words.
What is a phrase?
The order of events as they happen in a story or text.
What is plot?
When you look at all the parts of something to better understand it.
What is an analysis?
When you write about what was read without including all the details, just the main parts.
What is a summary (or gist)?
The reason for a particular action or something that happens.
What is purpose?
The way a text makes a READER FEEL.
What is mood?
Where the story takes place.
What is setting?
When the author DIRECTLY states something and it DOES NOT have to be inferred.
What is explicit?
The message or lesson learned from a story or text.
What is theme?
A narrator's, writer's, or speaker's way of thinking about something.
What is point of view (or perspective)?
The attitude an author takes toward a subject.
What is tone?
A group of lines in a poem.
What is a stanza?
When you have to figure something out because it is NOT directly stated.
What is implicit?
The main idea or what the story or text is mostly about.
What is central idea?
What is conflict?
Rereading in the text around an unknown word to figure out what it means based on the text.
What are context clues?
A group of sentences together in a larger text.
What is a paragraph?
When you use your existing knowledge and words from the text, an educated guess.
What is an inference?
When something has an effect on something else.
What is impact?
Looking at differences and similarities between two things.
The part of the word that is attached to the beginning. Ex: rerun, reuse, prehistoric, predate
What is a prefix?