Powerful Words
Break it down in to parts.
What is analyze?
Who are characters?
An exaggeration for effect.
What is hyperbole?
What is explicit?
An assertion, usually supported by evidence.
What is a claim?
Judge it.
What is evaluate?
The time, place, and circumstances in which the story occurs.
What is setting?
A warning or indication of a future event.
What is foreshadowing?
The central topic, subject, or message within a narrative.
What is theme?
What is a thesis statement?
To give details about.
The main events of a story.
What is plot?
The attitude a writer takes toward the audience, a subject, or a character.
A conclusion reached on the basis of evidence and reasoning.
What is inference?
The person telling the story.
What is narrator?
Read between the lines
A conversation between two or more people in a story.
What is dialogue?
When the reader is aware of something that the character isn't.
What is dramatic irony?
a summary that is accurate and not influenced by emotion or personal prejudice, impartial.
The reason the author has for writing.
Back up with information or evidence.
What is support?
The perspective from which the story is told.
What is point of view?
A reference to a person, place, thing, event, or other literary work with which the reader is presumably familiar.
What is allusion?
A detailed examination of the elements or structure of something.
What is analysis?
The listener, viewer, or reader of a text.
What is audience?