Academic Vocabulary ( Reading and Writing)

The enemy of the main character.

• Protagonist
• Antagonist
• Conflict Man vs. Man

The main character of a story.

• Antagonist
• Audience
• Protagonist

The message, moral, or lesson of a story.

• Secret
• Theme
• Plot
• Details

Metaphor

• A comparison between two unlike things in which one thing is spoken of as if it were another
• A comparison of two different things using the words LIKE or AS
• The central message of a literary work
• Choice of words

Simile

• A comparison between two unlike things in which one thing is spoken of as if it were another
• A recurrent image, symbol, theme, character type, subject, or narrative detail that becomes a unifying element in an artistic work or text
• A comparison of two different things using the words LIKE or AS
• Anything that represents itself but also stands for something else on a figurative level

Author's Purpose

• An author's attitude toward his or her subject matter
• The way an author reveals a character's personality to readers
• When an author tells the reader about a character's appearance, thoughts, feelings
• The specific reason or reasons for the writing; what the writer hopes to accomplish

Point of View

• The person or entity telling the story
• The perspective from which a narrative is told, that is first person, third-person limited or third-person omniscient
• When a character's appearance, thoughts or feelings are revealed through: 1) his actions 2)his words 3)the actions of others 4)the words of others
• The atmosphere of a work; the way a reader feels while reading a work of fiction or poetry

A conclusion drawn from the text based on text evidence and the reader's own background knowledge 

• Perspective
• Conflict
• Inference
• Theme

The major events of a story or other work of fiction

• Climax
• Plot
• Rising Action
• Setting

Explicit is:

• When the answer is obvious in the text

• When the answer isn't in the text at all

• When the answer is implied in the text

• When the narrator is in first person

Tags

CCSS.RI.4.1

CCSS.RL.4.1