Fiction
The author's message in a story.
The reason an author wrote a passage.
What is author's purpose?
In this point of view the narrator is the protagonist giving insight into his/her own life.
What is first person?
Comparison of two different things using like or as.
What is a simile?
Fiction summaries should contain these two things
What are conflict and resolution?
People in the story.
What are characters?
The strategy we use for expository or informational texts?
What is QVMS?
This story's theme: The guilt for your evil actions will catch up to you in the end.
What is The Tell-Tale Heart?
Comparison of two different things without using like or as.
What is a metaphor?
When choosing an expository summary, avoid this.
Facts that are too specific
The main problem or challenge in a story.
What is conflict?
This part of QVMS will help you understand what different paragraphs are about.
What is Main Idea?
In this point of view, the narrator only knows one other character's thoughts or feelings.
What is third person limited?
This type of word is the opposite in meaning from another word.
What is an antonym?
The word we saw this week that means the same thing as "differences"
What are contrasts?
Fiction summaries should contain these two things.
What are conflict and resolution?
What is Visual?
When a question asks for this, look for the answer that you can visualize and see.
A comparison that can last several lines or even an entire poem.
What is an extended metaphor?
This term means someone feels lesser than or unimportant.
What is "second fiddle"?
In this point of view, the narrator is not the main character but only gives you insights into what the main character thinks or feels.
What is third person limited?
These types of questions ask you how the author ordered or arranged the information in their article.
What are organizational patterns?
This tool on the STAAR online program will help you add annotations, but only for individual questions.
What are sticky notse?
TPFAST in order
What is Title, Paraphrase, Figurative Language, Attitude, Speaker, Theme?
"Second fiddle", "raining cats and dogs", "kicked the bucket" are all examples of this type of figurative langugae.
What is an idiom?