Literary Terms/Academic Words

The author's opinions, beliefs, thoughts, and feelings about a topic or subject.

• Author's Point of View

• Author's Purpose

• Author's state of mind

• Author's goal

The author's reason for writing.

• The Author's Perspective

• The Author's Purpose

• The Author's view

• The Author's Prerogative

Authors write for 3 reasons.

• 1. To Retire

  2. To Inform

  3. To Persuade

• 1. To Inform

  2. To Entertain

  3. Persuade

• 1. To Persuade

  2. To Get Rich

  3. To Entertain

• 1. To Get Rich

  2. To Retire

  3. To Cry

 This is the author's lesson or message taken from the text.

• Main idea

• Plot

• Point

• Theme

Using evidence to conclude what is not directly stated in a text.

• Suspense

• Plot

• Infer

• Explicit

Most themes must be _____________.

• Read aloud

• Erased

• Plotted

• Inferred

These story elements can help the reader infer a theme.

• Characters

  Setting

  Plot

  Dialogue

  Title

• Setting

  Title

  Resolution

  Plot

  Theme

• Characters

  Introduction

  Rising Action

  Climax

  Falling Action

• Lights

  Music

  Dialogue

The plot consists of the _____________________, _____________________, and_____________________ that move the story forward.

• Action

  Dialogue

  Thoughts

• Genre

  Irony

  Dialogue

• Lights

  Camera

  Action

• People

  Animals

  Objects

The people, animals, or aliens who act, speak, and think their way through the story.

• Zombies

• Elves

• Authors

• Characters

Where a story takes place.

• Plot

• Dialogue

• Setting

• Theme