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| Audience | The people who will read a written piece or hear the piece being read. |
| Author's Purpose | The reason an author writes, such as to entertain, to inform, or to persuade. |
| Author's Tone | The attitude the writer takes toward an audience, a subject, or a character, shown through the writer's choice of words and details. |
| Details | Many small parts which help to tell a story. |
| Draw Conclusions | To make a decision or form an opinion after considering the facts from the text. |
| Events | Things that happen. |
| Fiction | A passage that is made up rather than factually true. |
| Genre | Categories of literary and informational texts. |
| Literary Text | Text that describes actions or events, usuallly written as fiction, such as novels and short stories. |
| Plot Sequence | Also know just as plot, this is the the order of events in a story. |
| Predict | The ability of the reader to know or expect that something is going to happen in a text before it does. |
| Problem | An issue or question in a text that needs to be answered. |
| Setting | The time and place of a story or play. The setting helps to create the mood in a story such as inside a spooky house or inside a mall. |
| Story | An account of something that happened. |
| Story Elements | The important parts of the story, including characters, setting, plot, problem, and resolution. |
| Theme | The major idea or topic that the author reveals in a literary work. It is usually not directly stated; instead, the reader has to think about the details and make an inference about what it means. |
