| A | B |
|---|
| amiably | good natured |
| apathy | lack of emotions |
| audience | the people who read a written piece or hear the piece being read |
| author's purpose | the reason an author writes, such as to entertain, inform, or persuade |
| author's tone | the attitude the writer takes toward an audience,subject, or character shown through the choice of words and details |
| cause | the reason for an action, feeling, or response |
| compare | to use examples to show how things are alike |
| composure | calmness |
| congenial | agreeable; pleasant |
| contrast | to use examples to show how things are different |
| descriptive text | to create a clear picture of a person, place, thing or idea by using vivid words |
| dynamic character | one who changes as a result of the story's events |
| effect | a result ofa cause |
| emanate | come forth |
| extricate | free; release |
| facades | fronts of buildings |
| fiction | a passage that is made up rather than factually true, such as novels or short stories |
| first person pov | one of the characters is actually telling the story, using the pronoun "I" to relate information |
| generalize | to come to a broad idea or rule about something after considering particular facts |
| infer | to make a guess based on facts and observations |
| inference | an important idea or conclusion drawn from reasoning rather than directly stated in the text |
| inform | to give knowledge; to tell |
| informational text | also called expository; text with the purpose of telling about details, facts, and information that is true, such as textbooks, newspaper articles, and biographies |
| literary devices | techniques used to convey an author's message or voice, such as figurative language, similes, metaphors |
| literary text | also called narrative text; text that describes actions or events, usually written as fiction, such as novels and short stories |
| malicious | deliberately harmful or mean |
| mood | the feeling or emotion the reader gets from a piece of writing |
| non fiction | a passage of writing that tells about real people, events, and places without changing any facts, such as an autobiography, essay, diary, or letter |
| omniscient | the narrator knows everything about the character and their problems |
| plot | a chain of relatedevents,each developing out of the prior one |
| presumptuous | overly bold or confident |
| rapacious | greedy |
| resource | a source of help or support |
| schema | the accumulated knowledge that a person can draw from life experiences to help understand concepts, roles, emotions, and events |
| sequential order | the arrangement of ordering information, concepts, or ideas |
| solution | an answer to a problem |
| static character | one who does not change much during a course of work |
| style | a way of writing that is individual to the writer such as word choice, phrases, or images |
| summary | to retell what happens in a story in a short way by telling the main ideas, not details |
| suppporting detail | statements that often follow the main idea. They give you more information about the main idea |
| theme | a main idea in a work of literature |
| thesis | a subject for a composition or essay |
| third person pov | the narrator focuses on the thoughts and feelings of just one character |
| tone | a way of writing that shows a feeling |
| valid | correct, acceptable |
