Craft and Technique
The author's message about the topic
What the Main Idea
The time, place, and environment where a story's events take place
Setting
This is WHY something happens and what happens as a RESULT.
Cause and Effect
The opponent or rival of the protagonist in a story, creating the central conflict
Antagonist
Dialogues between characters must be written between these.
Quotation marks (")
The sequence of interconnected events in a story
Plot
A person, or even an animal or object, that takes part in the action of a story, play, or other narrative work
Characters
List and sequence of events in the story
Plot
The primary reason or intent for writing a text - Persuade, Inform, or Entertain
Author's purpose
The message about life that the story conveys to the reader
Theme
a statement that seems self-contradictory, but turns out to be a possible truth
Paradox
Main character of a story
Protagonist
Problem that the main character has to solve
Conflict
Every feature of a writer's use of language, such as rhythm, word choice, and methods of organization
Author's style
Part of the story that holds the highest point of action/conflict/change/thriller
Climax
Punctuation mark that separates two different ideas.
Period
the voice or character telling the story
Narrator
Coming to a conclusion based on combining text clues with prior knowledge
Inference
Restating a sentence or idea in your own words
Paraphrase
Writing that is organized in sentences and paragraphs
Prose
Punctuation needed to give the reader pause, join two sentences that are similar, to continue adding ideas, etc.
Comma
The literal, Dictionary definition of a word
Denotation
A SHORT restatement of the main ideas of a text
Summary
The final outcome of a story, during which any remaining conflicts are resolved or left open
Resolution
The overall feeling that the work evokes in the reader
Mood