Milestone Key Terms

The author's intention for his or her piece.  All passages have a purpose, whether it is to persuade, inform, or entertain.

• Author's Point of View
• Author's Purpose
• Audience
• Dialogue

Something that proves or demonstrates the truth of something else.

• metaphor
• inference
  inference
• evidence
• genre

Language that is not literal or realistic.  You must figure out what it means.  For example: similes, metaphors, hyperbole, metaphors, personification, and idiom.

• figurative language
• real language
• foreign language
• genre

A category of passages, such as fiction and nonfiction.  Each genre has particular style, form, and content.

• informational text
• paired texts
• evidence
• genre

To come to a reasonable conclusion (read between the lines) based on evidence found in the text.

• prediction
• inference
• experiment
• evidence

Forms of writing that inform the reader or explain something.

• informational text
• fiction
• folk tale
• fairy tale

Comparing two unlike things NOT using like or as.

• simile
• metaphor
• personification
• idiom

Giving human-like characteristics to non-human objects.

• personification
• idiom
• simile
• metaphor

An overview of a text that captures the main points but does not give all of the details and does not include opinions.

• revision
• summary
• details
• dialogue

The lesson or message... For example, a story could be about two friends who like to do things together, and the lesson might be "the importance of friendship."

• summary
• theme
• main idea
• transition