Reading Literary Unit

_________________ means to come to a reasonable conclusion based on evidence found in the text.

• inference

• central idea

• literal

• metaphor

An _________________ idea or message is fully stated or revealed by the author. The author tells the reader exactly what he or she needs to know.

• literal

• objective summary

• explicit

• personification

The ____________ of a literary text is its lesson or message. 

• inference

• theme

• explicit

• central idea

The______________ is the most important point or idea that the author is making in a text. It is also known as the main idea.

• conflict

• plot

• objective summary

• central idea

An ________________is an overview of a text. It captures the main points but does

not give every detail and does not include opinions.

• objective summary

• characterization

• literal

• personification

 _________ is the specific order of a series of events that form a story.

• plot

• resolution

• conflict

• characterization

_____________ is the  problem in a story.

• plot

• resolution

• conflict

• characterization

__________________ is the solution to the problem or the end of the main dramatic conflict. 

• plot

• resolution

• conflict

• characterization

____________________ refers to the way an author develops a character over the course of a

text.

• plot

• resolution

• conflict

• characterization

 __________________refers to the actual meaning of a word or phrase.

• simile

• personification

• metaphor

• literal