"Black Sunday"/Literary Vocabulary

Providing specific information from the text in support of the answer to a question.

• inference

• cite text evidence

• author's perspective

• theme

destroyed or damaged badly

• ravaged

• plight

• genre

• widespread

a logical guess based on facts and one's own knowledge and experience.

• historical nonfiction narratives

• central idea

• theme

• inference

serious or harmful condition or situation

• impoverished

• widespread

• plight

• unending

discouraged; defeated

• demoralized

• unending

• central idea

• author's perspective

The author's main message or insight. Found in a narrative historical nonfiction.

• author's perspective

• theme

• genre

• central idea

an imaginary story that is set in a real time and place from the past.

• historical nonfiction narrative

• historical fiction

• inference

• plight

a category of literary writing

• widespread

• historical fiction

• historical nonfiction narratives

• genre

Stories that are true and include facts and the experiences of real people.

• historical fiction

• genre

• historical nonfiction narratives

• theme

Attitude toward a topic. Often relates to a work's theme or central idea, depending on the genre of a text.

• author's perspective

• genre

• ravaged

• unending