Quotable Quotes & Inferences
This is the term for a conclusion you reach based on evidence and your own background knowledge.
What is an inference?
The "moral" or the big lesson the author wants you to learn.
(What is the theme?
A comparison of two unlike things using the words "like" or "as."
What is a simile?
Non-fiction texts usually have one or more of these, which tell what the text is mostly about.
What are Main Ideas?
If the narrator is a character in the story saying "I" and "me," the story is told in this point of view
What is First Person?
When you use the exact words from a story to prove a point, you are doing this.
What is quoting accurately?
To do this, you must tell the beginning, middle, and end of a story in a shortened way.
What is a summary?
A comparison that says one thing is another thing, like "The snow is a white blanket."
What is a metaphor?
This text structure explains why something happened and what the result was.
What is Cause and Effect?
This is the name for a "paragraph" in a poem.
What is a stanza?
This type of information is "right there" in the text and doesn’t require any guessing.
What is explicit information?
When you look at how two characters are the same and how they are different, you are doing this.
What is comparing and contrasting?
This part of a word is added to the beginning to change its meaning.
What is a prefix?
An author uses these two things to support the points they are making in a non-fiction text.
What are reasons and evidence?
Two different authors might write about the same event but have different opinions; this is called their Point of View or this
What is Perspective?
If a character's "face turns red and their fists clench," we can infer they feel this way.
What is angry/frustrated?
This element of a story includes the time and the place where the action happens.
What is the setting?)
If you don't know the meaning of a word, you should look at the words around it, also known as these.
What are context clues?
This text structure puts events in the order in which they happened.
What is Chronological Order or Sequence?
These are the "chapters" or "sections" of a play or drama.
What are Scenes?
True or False: You should only quote the text when you are writing about non-fiction.
What is False?
A summary of a story should be objective, meaning you should leave out these.
What are personal opinions/feelings?
Knowing Greek and Latin roots like "bio" (life) or "graph" (write) helps you decode these types of long words.
What are multisyllabic words?
"Comparison," "Cause/Effect," and "Problem/Solution" are all examples of this.
What is Text Structure?
When a narrator's perspective makes them describe an event in a specific (sometimes biased) way, we say the POV is doing this to the story
What is influencing/shaping the story?