| A | B |
|---|
| Theme | Message or moral of the story |
| Objective | Facts |
| Subjective | Opinions |
| Bias | For or against a thing |
| Element of Plot | Exposition |
| Perspective | Who is telling the story |
| Mood | How the audience feels |
| Tone | How the author feels |
| Reasons to migrate | Jobs |
| Discrimination against immigrants | Chinese Exclusion Act |
| World War I | Started because Austria-Hungary and Serbia were already fighting over land |
| Trail of Tears | Cherokee Removal |
| Roaring 20s | Women got more rights |
| 1990s | Decade with the highest immigration |
| Verbal irony | Saying one thing, but meaning another |
| Dramatic irony | Audience knows what will happen, but character does not |
| Central Idea | The main idea |
| Hitler | WWII leader of Germany |
| Stalin | WWII leader of the Soviet Union |
| Harlem Renaissance | An explosion of African American culture |
| Hiroshima | First atomic bomb dropped |
| Holocaust | Mass murder of Jews |
 | Southern Colonies |
 | Child Labor |
