MStep Vocabulary

text written to persuade an audience with a claim (opinion), evidence, & reasoning

• argument
• narrative
• explanatory
• main idea

Word that means "in time order"

• central idea
• clocked
• chronological
• setting

when a character is speaking in text, quotation marks are used

• talking
• topic
• genre
• dialogue

to use your thinking (brain) + text (book) to better understand text

• plot
• lead
• infer / inference
• plagiarism

the most important idea of the text; similar to "thesis," "central idea," or "claim" in writing

• exposition
• main idea
• character
• passage

proof found in text that supports the topic / claim

• evidence
• resolution
• theme
• nonfiction

a kind or type of something, as in books

• paraphrase
• transitions
• character
• genre

the author's OPINION on a subject that guides the argument; AKA "claim"

• thesis
• genre
• lead
• narrator

part of the story that tells how the characters "end-up" and may also include "theme"

• exposition
• setting
• resolution
• climax

a STORY that did NOT happen in real life

• nonfiction
• fiction
• fake
• explanatory