A | B |
narrative | fiction text that tells a story with characters |
setting | time and place of the story |
theme | a message about life or human nature that the write shares with the reader |
conflict | the problem in the story |
climax | comes when the action, conflict, and tension reach a critical point |
resolution | ending or outcome of the story;a problem may be solved |
context clues | Use the words, phrases, and sentences around a word to figure out its meaning |
author's purpose: expository text | to inform the reader |
author's purpose: narrative text | to entertain the reader |
synonyms | words that have the same meaning |
expository text | text that informs; information that's true. |
sequence/series of steps | text structure that gives information in order |
comparison and contrast | a text structure that shows how two or more things are alike or different |
cause/effect | text structure that connects what happened with why it happened |
fact | something that can be proven true or false |
opinion | a personal belief or judgement/ what someone thinks or feels |
propaganda | writing that attempts to persuade the readers to accept a point of view |
prefixes | a word or syllable placed in front of a word to add to or change its meaning |
suffixes | letter or letters added to the end of a word to make another word |
root word | the basic part of the word that usually carries the main component of meaning |