| A | B |
| summarize | to retell the most important part of a story in your own words |
| supporting details | small peices of a story that tell more about the main idea |
| symbolism | the use of an object to represent something else |
| technical | text used to complete a task such as putting something together |
| testimonial | statements from people or experts attesting to the worth of something |
| text features | captions, titles, graphs, etc, that make a text more exciting and easier to understand |
| theme | the message about life expressed in a written work |
| thesis/hypothesis | a statement to be proved or a guess |
| tone | the general feeling or emotion you get from reading something |
| topic | the main idea (subject) of something written or talked about. |