Vocabulary Review

State or assert that something is the case, typically without providing evidence or proof.

• Dialogue

• Claim

• Argument

• Conflict

Write or create (a work of art, especially music or poetry).

• Evaluate

• Analysis

• Compose

• Integrate

Explain the meaning of (information, words, or actions).

• Interpret

• Central Idea

• Explanatory

• Summarize

Also known as the main idea; this is the most important thought of the entire text and tells the reader the author's main point in writing

• Claim

• Argument

• Central Idea

• Analysis

The subject of a talk, a piece of writing, a person's thoughts, or an exhibition; a topic.

• Genre

• Theme

• Central Idea

• Plot

A story, poem, or picture that can be interpreted to reveal a hidden meaning, typically a moral or political one.

• Allegory

• Narrative

• Genre

• Theme

A category of artistic composition, as in music or literature, characterized by similarities in form, style, or subject matter.

• Narrative

• Genre

• Plot

• Narrative

A spoken or written account of connected events; a story.

• Dialogue

• Argument

• Narrative

• Allegory

Conversation between two or more people as a feature of a book, play, or movie.

• Plot

• Argument

• Dialogue

• Point of View

Combine (one thing) with another so that they become a whole.

• Summarize

• Compare

• Contrast

• Integrate