MAP Key Words

To make a guess about something based on facts.

• infer
• determine 
• describe
• paraphrase

to explain something using facts and details.

• infer
• describe
• determine
• detail

to come to a conclusion and to figure something out.

• paraphrase
• infer
• describe
• determine

Really important or meaningful.

• infer
• detail
• significant 
• determine

specific FACTS from the passage/text. 

• details
• significant 
• infer
• describe

To put something in your own words. 

• describe
• infer
• detail
• paraphrase 

short sayings that press a general truth about human nature.

• adage
• proverb
• point of view
• setting

told by ONE character IN the story.

• third person narration
• first person narration
• third person limited 
• adage

Told by a narrator who is OUTSIDE of the story. 

• First person narration
• proverb
• Third person Narration 
• homophone

The WHEN and WHERE a story takes place.

• point of view
• third person narration
• setting
• first person narration