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Consists of hints or clues about what will happen later in the story
Foreshadowing
100
Perspective from which an author presents the actions and characters in the story
Point of View
100
Means to create mental pictures of what you read
Visualize
100
The people or animals that take part in the events of a story or passage
Character
100
When you state the most important ideas you have learned about the selection or story and retell
Summarize
200
Comparisons of two unlike things, concepts, or people
Similes and Metaphors
200
The time and place in which a story occurs
Setting
200
A person who narrates the story; who tells the story
Narrator
200
When you tell how two or more things are alike and different.
Compare and Contrast
200
The most important idea about the topic
Main idea
300
Explaining something in your own words while retaining the author's meaning and ideas.
Paraphrasing
300
Everything that you already know about a topic
Prior Knowledge/ Background
300
Is the arrangement of a story from beginning to end.
Story Structure
300
Smaller pieces of information that support the main idea
Details
300
A statement that can be proved true or false is called a fact. A STATEMENT that tells a person's thoughts, feelings, or ideas is called an opinion.
Fact and opinion
400
The way the author has organized the text
Text Structure
400
Charts, diagrams, maps, and timelines, show information visually or in a way that the reader can see
Graphic Source
400
Means to imply or figure out
Inference
400
We use background knowledge to come up with your ideas about what the author is trying to present
Infer
400
A topic, as of works of literature, art, or popular fiction
Theme
500
Another way of describing the main thought or idea
Central Idea
500
A kind, or type, as of works of literature,art, or popular fiction
Genre
500
Interchange of ideas by open discussion
Dialogue
500
The act or result of resolving something
Resolution
500
Is a phrase or expression whose meaning cannot be understood from the ordinary meaning of the words that form it
Idiom