Power Words

an event, action, or feeling that makes something happen and then what happens

• conflict - situation - problem

• climax

• exposition

• cause/effect

a logical guess about information that is not directly stated

• making connections

• exposition

• inference

• figurative language

a person or an animal that takes part in the action of a literary work

• author's purpose

• character

• falling action

• fiction

a type of literature

• cause/effect

• central/main idea

• genre

• falling action

describes a story told by a character who uses the pronoun "I"

• author's purpose

• first person point of view

• third person point of view

• theme

their main reason for writing, keeping the audience in mind (persuade - inform - entertain)

• author's purpose

• theme

• climax

• genre

includes the events that follow the climax

• exposition

• rising action

• falling action

• plot

introduces the characters, setting, and basic situation

• exposition

• rising action

• climax

• falling action

key point in nonfiction

• exposition

• genre

• inference

• central/main idea

linking background knowledge to the text (examples: text-to-self, text-to-text, text-to-world)

• central/main idea

• making connections

• fiction

• figurative language