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Evidence
What is knowledge on which to base a belief?
100
Connections
What is relating what you read to something else you know?
100
Argument
What is a reason or set of reasons that something is true?
100
Central Idea
What is the most important point the author makes?
100
Conclusions
What is the summing up of an argument or text?
200
Exposition
What is the portion of the text that introduces the characters and setting before the "inciting force"?
200
Details
What are the isolated facts that support ideas?
200
Climax
What is the most exciting part of a story, play or movie that all the "rising action" leads up to?
200
Hyperbole
What is an exaggeration for effect?
200
Resolution
What is the point in a story where the major conflict has been worked out?
300
Simile
What is a direct comparison using like or as?
300
Point of View
What is the vantage point from which a story is told?
300
Alliteration
What are words in a row with the same initial consonant sound?
300
Figurative Language
What are figures of speech used to make meaning clearer?
300
Illustrations
What are visual materials used to clarify or add to a text?
400
Theme
What is a unified idea?
400
Interaction
What is a mutual or reciprocal action?
400
Mood
What is the way the author makes the reader feel?
400
Stanza
What is a poetry term for paragraph--a section of a poem?
400
Metaphor
What is an indirect comparison?
500
Rhetoric
What is the art of writing or speaking effectively?
500
Tone
What is the author's attitude or outlook?
500
Analogy
What is a similarity between like features of two things?
500
Connotative Language
What is the association that a word brings to mind?
500
Structure
What is the organization of a text?