Milestones Key Terms

Passages that are stories, dramas, or poems.

• Plot

• Literary Texts

• Informational Texts

• Setting

To come to a reasonable conclusion based on evidence in the text.

• Theme

• Guess

• Central Idea

• Inference

The lesson or message of a text.

• Theme

• Central Idea

• Inference

• Plot

An overview of a passage that captures the main points, but not every single detail of a text.

• Resolution

• Objective Summary

• Central Idea

• Inference

The way an author develops a character in a text.

• Resolution

• Plot

• Setting

• Characterization

Refers to where and when a story takes place.

• Setting

• Plot

• Theme

• Timeline

The series of events that form a story.

• Objective Summary

• Incedent

• Plot

• Setting

The solution to the problem in a text.

• Conflict

• Theme

• Plot

• Resolution

The exact words that characters say in a text.

• Dialogue

• Setting

• Conflict

• Figurative Language

Something that occurs in a story.

• Plot

• Incident

• Dialogue

• Resolution