Textual Evidence
Point of View
Theme
Ideas and Analysis
Word Meanings
100
To quote information from the text
What is to Cite?
100
A particular attitude or way of considering a matter. (Usually in First Person or Third Person)
What is Point of View?
100
To state the most important ideas, events, and details in a text in your own words
What is to Summarize?
100
Conversation between characters.
What is Dialogue?
100
The author's attitude toward the subject of the text
What is Tone?
200
An assertion, usually supported by evidence(the most important part
What is Claim?
200
(adj.) Connected with or related to the topic
What is Relevant?
200
The central idea or message of a work of literature, often expressed as a general statement about life
What is Theme?
200
To look at something carefully by paying attention to its parts
What is to Analyze?
200
Refers to the emotions (positive or negative) that are associated with words
What is Connotative?
300
A particular fact or piece of information about something or someone
What is Detail?
300
Any person, animal or figure within a literary work
What are Characters?
300
The subject of a text, usually expressed as a single word or phrase in the form of a noun
What is Topic?
300
Refers to the time and place in which the events of a story take place
What is Setting?
300
What is intended to be, or actually is expressed or indicated
What is Meaning?
400
Using facts or information to support your belief or proposition to show it is true or valid
What is Evidence?
400
Persuade, Inform, Entertain, Explain, Describe
What is Author's purpose?
400
A series of events that make up a story
What is Plot?
400
The act of breaking into smaller components for the purpose of study or examination
What is Analysis?
400
A reference made to something that is not directly mentioned
What is Allusion?
500
A logical assumption based on observed facts from the text and one's own knowledge/experience
What is Inference?
500
Tell the facts, details, or to say or write down how something or someone looks; to use adjectives in writing
What is to Describe?
500
Undistorted by emotion or personal bias
What is Objective?
500
Point in a story that creates great intensity, suspense, or interest; the point at which the conflict is resolved
What is the Climax?
500
The meaning of a word or phrase as it relates to a particular subject, discipline, field, profession, or trade
What is Technical Meaning?