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| author's purpose | the reason an author writes—to inform, to explain, to persuade, or to entertain |
| tone | the attitude the author takes toward an audience, a subject, or a character |
| mood | the overall emotion created by the author; it is what the audience feels while reading |
| flashback | an interruption in the present action of a story to flash backward and tell what happened at an earlier time |
| foreshadowing | a literary technique in which the author gives hints about an event before it happens. |
| theme | a message or lesson that makes the reader think about life, human nature, or how the world works |
| symbol | an abstract idea that represents a person, place, or thing; white = purity |
| organizational structures | the way writing is organized such as compare/contrast, cause/effect, chronological, problem/solution |
| setting | the time AND place of the story |
| scope | the amount of detail that an author goes into when writing a work (think of the various ones of a baby's Bible, children's Bible, and an adult Bible |
| subjective | in nonfiction, an author gives his thoughts/feelings/opinions OR in fiction when the thoughts, feelings, and beliefs of the character(s) is known |
| resolution | this is the conclusion of the story. It ties together the whole story. It explains how the conflict is resolved and what happens to the characters after the story ends |
| objective | in nonfiction the author is unbiased and only gives knowledge, facts, and observable details; in fiction, the audience only knows the dialogue and actions of the characters |
| figurative language | words and phrases with special sound and meaning |
| exposition | starts off the story and lets the reader know any important information before the action starts. It introduces the characters & the setting |
| connotation | the feelings and attitudes associated with a word |
