Know Your FSA Terms

What the passage or text is mainly about

• Anecdote

• Central Idea

• Impact

• Claim

Details that a support a belief

• Motivation

• Contribute

• Explicit

• Supporting details

Short account of an event

• Anecdote

• Metaphor

• Develop

• Trace

Arriving at a conclusion based on evidence from a text

• Simile

• Cite

• Inference

• Tone

Meaning of a word based on whether meaning is positive or negative

• Tone

• Connotation

• Thesis

• Analyze

Comparison of two things that are not alike using like or as

• Claim

• Theme

• Motivation

• Simile

Comparison of two things that are not alike not using like or as

• Metaphor

• Conflict

• Point of view

• Trace

A particular way of sounding as expressive of some feeling

• Textual evidence

• Analyze

• Thesis

• Tone

A state or quality of feeling at a particular time

• Mood

• Motivation

• Cite

• Impact

Difference that prevents an agreement

• Textual Evidence

• Evaluate

• Conflict

• Convey