Vocabulary 1 Review

The most important idea in a piece of writing

• Explicit details

• Key details

• Main idea

• Implicit details

The evidence that supports the main idea

• Main idea

• Pacing

• Narrator

• Key details

Brief statement of the main points, telling the story in your own words

• Inference

• Adage

• Proverb

• Summarize

To fully and clearly express something, leaving nothing implied

• Implicit details

• Explicit details

• Key details

• Pacing

Understood though not plainly or directly expressed

• Implicit details

• Pacing

• Explicit details

• Key details

Text organization in which ideas and concepts are presented in the order in which they happen

• Pacing

• Trait

• Part to whole structure

• Sequential structure

A detail about a character’s physical appearance or personality

• Inference

• Adage

• Trait

• Proverb

The rate the story is progressing- exciting events move in a fast pace because of the action

• Trait

• Inference

• Narrator

• Pacing

Text organization in which facts and details lead to one main idea

• Sequential structure

• Inference

• Part to whole structure

• Narrator

The person or speaker telling the story

• Adage

• Narrator

• Proverb

• Nonfiction