| A | B |
|---|
| change | affect |
| assertion | a statement with no proof |
| attitude | feelings toward something |
| author's purpose | author's reason |
| based on | according to the text |
| bullet points | symbols used to show items in a list |
| bold print | words written in darker print |
| central idea | main point made by the author |
| characters | people or animals told about in selections |
| claim | a statement that has not been proven to be true |
| compare | to show how two things are alike |
| conflict | the problem in a story |
| context | meaning of the story |
| contribute | add information to |
| descriptive language | words or phrases used to help the reader see the story |
| detail | smaller part of something larger |
| determine | to figure out |
| develop | to happen slowly over a period of time |
| direct quotation | exact words spoken by a character |
| effect | what happened because of something else |
| figurative language | writing that makes the story easier to see |
| foreshadowing | hinting at what is to come later in a selection |
| inferred | figured out by what is written or said |
| italics | slanted letters |
| main idea | mostly about |
| metaphor | compares two things using is/was/are/were |
| narrator | person telling the story |
| personification | giving human qualities to nonhuman things |
| phrase | a group of words that go together but do not make a complete sentence |
| plot | sequence of events |
| purpose | reason |
| quotation | direct, unchanged words from the text |
| quote | words taken directly from a selection |
| selection | what is being read |
| similar | alike |
| simile | compares two things using like or as |
| statement | sentence |
| subheading | title of a small section of nonfiction text |
| suggest | to hint at without stating |
| summary | a short retelling of a selection |
| summarizes | tells the whole selection in one sentence |
| theme | lesson to be learned from a selection |
| tone | overall feeling of a selection |
