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| Central Idea | is the most important point in a text. |
| Supporting Details | Details that support the main idea |
| Inferences | Educated guess |
| character traits | are the individual qualities that make each character unique. |
| character’s motives | the emotions or goals that drive him or her to act in a certain way. |
| character’s perspective | how he or she views events based on his or her experiences and emotions. |
| Point of view | the perspective from which the story is told |
| first-person point of view | the narrator is a character who participates in the action and uses first-person pronouns such as I and me |
| third-person point of view | The narrator uses third-person pronouns such as he and she to refer to the characters. |
| author’s point of view | The attitudes and approach that an author takes in an informational text |
| weighted words | words that have strong emotional associations beyond their basic meanings. |
| direct characterization | The writer directly describes a person’s character traits. |
| indirect characterization | The writer reveals a person’s character traits through the person’s own words and actions and from the words and actions of other people. |
| Characterization | the process that writers use to develop their descriptions of people. |
| symbol | is anything—an object, person, animal, place, or situation—that represents something else. |
| context clues | other words and phrases that appear in a text—to help you determine their meanings. |
| poetry | the sound and meaning of words are combined to express feelings, thoughts, and ideas |
| Imagery | the use of words to create pictures, or images, in your mind. |
| simile | compares two things using the words “like” or “as.” |
| repetition | when poets repeat words, phrases, or lines in a poem. |
| rhyme | are words that end with the same sound. |
| common noun | names a person, place, thing, or idea. |
| proper noun | names a specific person, place, or thing |
| possessive noun | shows ownership |
| adjective | a word that modifies or describes a noun or pronoun. |
| adverb | is a word that modifies or describes a verb, adjective, or another adverb. |
