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| Literary text | Literary texts are passages that are fiction, dramas, or poems. Each one of these literary genres, or types of literary texts, has a particular style, form, and content. (RL) |
| Fiction | including adventure stories, historical fiction, mysteries, myths, science fiction, realistic fiction, allegories, parodies, and satires (RL) |
| Dramas | including plays consisting of one or more acts (RL) |
| Poetry | including narrative, lyric, and free verse poems as well as sonnets, odes, ballads, and epics (RL) |
| Analysis | the process of looking closely at the small parts of a text to see how they work together and affect the whole |
| Cite | when he or she mentions a specific portion of a text in order to support an analysis of the text |
| Textual evidence | includes specific details from the text that support the author’s tone, purpose, characterizations, or central theme. (RL1) |
| Inferences | means to come to a reasonable conclusion based on evidence found in the text. |
| explicit idea | is fully stated or revealed by the author |
| Theme | the deeper message or central idea |
| Topic | An example is: Charles tells a lie to avoid trouble with his father, but his lie creates unexpected trouble with his brother. (RL9) |
| Theme example | The lies we tell to cover up an action or situation can often be more damaging than the action or situation itself. (RL2, RL9) |
| Complex account | an accurate retelling of how the themes were used in the text, along with the specific details and literary devices that support those themes |
| interact | the way that two themes influence each other or work together. These may occur between characters, ideas, or events. (RL2) |
| Objective summary | an overview of the text that captures the main points but does not give every detail and does not include opinions. (RL2) |
