English Terms
To be a symbol of; represent by a means of symbols in writing
What is to symbolize?
How you imagine the writer "sounds"
What is the tone of a story?
Arranged in a systematic way
What is organized?
To think deeply or carefully about something specific
What is reflect?
To make something known to others; a final revelation of information that had been kept from other characters
What is reveal?
Writer's giving human characteristics, thoughts, or emotions to something that is non-human
What is personification?
Give a brief statement of the main points of the story
What is summarizing a story?
To mention or introduce an idea, proposition, plan, etc.
What is suggest?
To make an idea, impression, or feeling known or understandable to someone else; communicate
What is convey?
A portion or section of a written work; paragraph
What is a passage?
The operation or relation of a cause and its effect; why things happen and what happens as a result
What is cause and effect?
Central element of the story, which ties together all of the other elements used by the author to tell the story
What is the central idea of a story?
To give in order to help achieve or provide something; help to cause or bring about
What is contribute?
A settled way of thinking or feeling about someone or something, typically one that is then reflected in a person's behavior
What is attitude?
To carefully choose something as being the best or most suitable
What is a selection?
To find the similarities
To find the differences
What is compare and contrast?
The specific effect that puts all the other effects of the story into place
What is the main effect of a story?
To give special importance or prominence to (something) in speaking or writing; to lay stress on a word or phrase
What is emphasize?
A conclusion reached on the basis of evidence and reasoning
What is an inference?
A short extract from a piece of text; portion
What is an excerpt?
A feature belonging typically to a person, place, or thing and serving to identify it; is a personality characteristic that someone has that helps make them different from someone else
What is characteristics / character traits?
The author's purpose is his/her reason for writing this piece; the author's purpose may be to amuse the reader, inform the reader, or to persuade the reader
What is the main purpose of a story?
Starting with the earliest and following the order in which something occurred; in order
What is chronological?
Property that is or may be inherited; features belonging to the culture of a particular society
What is heritage?
A particular order in which related events follow each other
What is a sequence?