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to retell the main events of a story in shortened form
What is to summarize?
100
to restate or retell the events of a story in your own words
What is to paraphrase?
100
reason why something happens
What is a cause?
100
what happens as the result of a cause
What is an effect?
100
the reason an author writes
What is author's purpose?
200
a person or animal who has a part in the story
What is a character?
200
to examine two or more things to see how they are different
What is contrast?
200
to examine to find out how two or more things are alike
What is to compare?
200
the time and place of the story
What is the setting of a story?
200
4 main authors' purposes
What are to persuade, to inform, to express, or to entertain?
300
to guess what will probably happen in a story or what the story will be about
What is a prediction?
300
a words that means the opposite of another word
What is antonym?
300
a word that means almost the same as another word
What is a synonym?
300
the reason a character does what he/she does
What is character motivation
300
something that can be proven and/or measured
What is a fact?
400
what a paragraph or story is mostly about
What is the main idea?
400
to jump back in time
What is flashback?
400
the author provides clues as to what will happen later in the story
What is foreshadowing?
400
the problem that the character has to solve, fix or deal with
What is conflict?
400
to make an educated guess on what you know and what the writer tells you
What is an inference?
500
when a person, place, or thing represents an idea, or another person place or thing
What is symbolism?
500
an answer or "fix" to the problem in the story
What is the solution?
500
describes the kind of person a character is
What are character traits?
500
a way to determine the meaning of a word by looking at the words around it and the sentences around it
What are context clues?
500
common phrases made up of words that don't mean exactly what they say
What is an idiom?