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| Text | anything that must be *read* to be understood; could include stories, poems, essays, speeches, signs, paintings, memes, photos, posters, etc. |
| Annotation | marking important and relevant parts of a text for your own purposes; can include highlighting, underlining, sticky notes, marginalia, etc. |
| Context Clues | looking at the rest of the words nearby in the sentence or paragraph to help you understand an unfamiliar word |
| Word Parts | the pieces that make up a word; prefix, root, and suffix |
| Homonyms | words that are spelled and pronounced the same but have very different meanings |
| Summary | the main idea and key/supporting details of a text |
| Inference | a conclusion drawn by looking at many pieces of evidence |
| Theme | the most important meaning of a text; the lesson or message a text conveys |
| Purpose | the reason the author created the nonfiction text; to inform, to persuade, or to entertain |
| Style | the particular way writers, artists, and songwriters express themselves; the “voice” |
| Tone | the attitude that an author, speaker, or artist seems to take toward a specific subject |
| Formality | the level of slang, vocabulary, and grammar a writer uses in relation to the audience and occasion |
| Figurative Language | words or phrases that are not meant to be taken literally |
| Simile | a comparison between unlike things using like or as |
| Metaphor | a direct comparison between unlike things where the two things are equal; does not use like or as |
| Hyperbole | a deliberate exaggeration or overstatement for descriptive or humorous purposes |
| Personification | giving human qualities to inanimate objects or animals |
| Allusion | a reference to something culturally well known, such as a piece of literature, art, a historical event, etc. |
| Imagery | the description and details a writer uses to appeal to the reader’s senses |
| Sources | the viewpoints of others, whether written, spoken, or presented visually |
| Quotation | a group of words taken from a text or speech and repeated by someone other than the original author or speaker |
| Ellipses | the series of dots that signal that something is missing from a quote |
| Brackets | punctuation used to indicate a change to a quote, such a pronoun or the tense of a verb |
| Plagiarism | representing someone else’s words, ideas, or research as one’s own |
| Citing | giving credit to a source for any words, ideas, or research used |
