The reason an author has for writing. Why was it written?
Author's Purpose
100
Author's write to try to get you to do something or believe something. Advertisements, commercials; use of opinions
Persuade
100
Author's write to give you factual and true information about something
Inform
100
Author's write narratives for our enjoyment (Fiction, poetry, dramas) Can be happy, sad, scary, adventurous
Entertain
100
What the story is MOSTLY about. 1-2 sentences. NOT a theme or summary
Main Idea
200
The perspective from which a story is told. How it's told
Point of View
200
A story is told from one of the character's point of view. I me, we. Very personal
First person
200
A narrator tells the story about character. He, she, them, they. Using a character's name
Third person
200
Narrator speaks directly to us saying you, your, you're. Used a lot in persuasive text
Second person
200
The message in a story. A life lesson learned. NOT a main idea
Theme
300
The main problem in a story
Conflict
300
How the conflict is solved in a story
Resolution
300
Clues or events in the story that HINT at what might happen later in the story
Foreshadowing
300
The details an author uses to help us create IMAGES in our minds. This helps us create pictures as we read
Imagery
300
Using evidence from the text and our background knowledge to determine and answer. When the answer isn't found in the text, but there has to be EVIDENCE
Inference/Conclusion
400
Details in a story have to do with the 5 senses.
Sensory details
400
Comparing things by using the words like, as, or than.
Simile
400
Comparing things by saying one this IS another.
Metaphor
400
Two more more words in a row starting with the same sound. Kit Kat. Big Bear.
Alliteration
400
A group of lines in a poem
Stanza
500
Words that rhyme in the same line of a poem
Internal rhyme
500
A part of a play. This changes when the scene changes
Scene
500
When things are repeated over and over again
Repetition
500
The conversation between characters. A play has a lot of this
Dialogue
500
Drawings that show or explain something with labels and captions