1st Semester Vocab

the central thought or idea of a passage/story

• Main Idea

• Summary

• Theme

• Characters

a brief retelling of the main idea and main supporting details of a text

• Summary

• Paraphrase

• Personification

• Compare & Contrast

evidence to back up the main idea

• Supporting Details

• Setting

• Fact

• Nonfiction

category used to classify literary and other works, usually by form, technique, or content

• Genre

• Informational Texts

• Metaphor

• Symbol

text that contains facts and details

• Informational Texts

• Nonfiction

• Fact

• Hyperbole

texts about made up people, creatures, and events

• Fiction

• Nonfiction

• Perspective

• Opinion

texts about real people, events, and places

• Nonfiction

• Fiction

• Informational Text

• Fact

to put something into one’s own words; to clarify a statement; using simpler words

• Paraphrase

• Summary

• Point of View

• Author's Purpose

the reason or why a text was written

• Author's Purpose

• Point of View

• Characters

• Genre

narrator’s interpretation of what happens in a story

• Perspective

• Point of View

• Genre

• First Person Point of View