The central idea about life and the human condition that an author wants to communicate in a story.

• Theme

• Thesis

• Tone

• Purpose

The controlling idea of an essay which establishes the central argument or claim that an author intends to prove.

• Thesis

• Purpose

• Inference

• Overstatement

A conclusion drawn by combining information in a text with what is already known.

• informal

• inference

• critique

• schema

The writer's attitude or feeling toward the subject revealed by word choice and phrasing.

• Irony

• Genre

• Tone

• Mood

A real object that also stands for a big idea.

• symbol

• simile

• sarcasm

• characterization

The perspective from which the narrator tells the story.

• point of view

• protagonist

• conflict

• narrator

Offering details about a character to help establish what that character is like.

• point of view

• symbolism

• characterization

• evidence

Select all the ways an author can characterize a character through INDIRECT characterization.

• Speech

• Thoughts

• Effects

• Energy

• Actions

Her smile was like the sunrise. This is an example of what type of figurative language?

• Metaphor

• Hyperbole

• Anaphora

• Simile

He drowned in a sea of grief. This is an example of which figurative language?

• Metaphor

• Repetition

• Synecdoche

• Simile