Lit Vocabulary

Proper procedure to give credit to an author and his or her work.

• cite

• textual

• inference

• theme

specific sections of text that support a claim

• cite

• textual evidence

• summary

• infer

an idea or conclusion drawn from evidence and reasoning

• guess

• alliteration

• main idea

• inference

What the story is about.

• theme

• hypothesis

• central/main idea

• guess

The universal message about human experience revealed in a work of literature

• guess

• main idea

• theme

• purpose

A retelling of the action in a written work

• summary

• purpose

• simile

• metaphor

the reason the author wrote the story

• characterization

• summary

• purpose

• metaphor

The process of revealing a character's personality.

• personification

• simile

• description

• characterization

a figure of speech that compares two unlike things using like or as.

• simile

• metaphor

• personification

• hyperbole

A figure of speech that makes a comparison without using like or as

• simile

• metaphor

• personification

• idiom