Vocabulary
What does infer mean?
To figure something out using clues and evidence.
What is the setting of a story?
Where and when the story takes place.
What is theme?
The main message or lesson of a story.
What is a simile?
A comparison using like or as.
What does it mean to cite text evidence?
Use words from the passage to support your answer.
What does analyze mean?
To examine something carefully to understand it.
What is the conflict?
The main problem in the story.
What are the three main author’s purposes?
To inform, persuade, or entertain.
What is a metaphor?
A comparison that says something is something else.
What is an inference?
A conclusion based on clues from the text and what you already know.
What does context mean?
The words or situation around a word that help explain its meaning.
What is the climax?
The most exciting or important turning point in the story.
If a story teaches “hard work leads to success,” what is that?
The theme.
What is personification?
Giving human traits to non-human things.
What is the main idea?
The most important point of a passage.
What is a synonym?
A word that has the same or nearly the same meaning as another word.
What is resolution?
How the problem is solved at the end of the story.
Why do authors use details, characters, and events?
To develop and reveal the theme.
What is hyperbole?
An extreme exaggeration.
What is a supporting detail?
Information that explains or proves the main idea.
What does connotation mean?
The feeling or idea a word suggests beyond its literal meaning.
What is rising action?
Events that build tension and lead up to the climax.
What does it mean to support a theme with evidence?
Use details or quotes from the text to prove the theme.
The wind whispered through the trees” is what type of figurative language?
Personification.
Why do good readers reread difficult parts of a text?
To better understand meaning and details.