Unit 1
What is Setting?
Character who actively opposes the protagonist
What is an Antagonist?
The author's reason for writing a text (to persuade, to inform, to entertain)
What is Author's purpose?
Additional features that provide information on the topic (headings, subtitles, graphics, etc.)
What is Text Features?
A strategy used to answer short answer questions
What is RAPS?
To restate something using only the most important details from the beginning, middle, and end
What is a Summary?
The most exciting part of the story; where we learn the outcome
What is the Climax?
How a text makes the reader feel
What is Tone?
The way an author organizes a text
What is Text Structure?
A comparison without using like or as
What is a Metaphor?
A logical conclusion made by connecting information from the text and your own ideas
What is an Inference?
The underlying message in the story
What is Theme?
A division of a poem consisting of two or more lines arranged together
What is a Stanza?
A source that came from an original source (textbooks, movies, etc.)
What is a Secondary Source?
The correct order of plot elements
What is Exposition, Rising Action, Climax, Falling Action, and Resolution?
To restate something using your own words
What is Paraphrasing?
When a character has an external conflict with another person
What is Person vs Person?
The action that takes place in a single setting
What is a Scene?
Language that is not intended to be taken literally, but is supposed to help the reader create mental images
What is Figurative Language?
Giving non-human things human qualities
What is Personification?
Connecting what you are reading to your life
What is Text-to-Self?
What is Third Person Point of View?
The atmosphere or feeling created by a text
What is Mood?
What is Compare and Contrast, Problem and Solution, Cause and Effect, Description, and Sequential?
An extreme exaggeration
What is a Hyperbole?