Key Terms for Coming of Age Unit

Theme is

• The time and place of a story

• A claim that a writer is defending in a paragraph or short response

• Information that clarifies what is happening in a moment or situation

• A universal message that can apply to real life or other stories

Central Idea is

• The main point an author makes in a non-fiction text (or a section of a nonfiction text)

• To rewrite something in your own words while maintaining its original meaning

• A feeling of excitement, anxiety, or uncertainty about an event

• A claim that a writer is defending in a paragraph or short response

Suspense is

• a word or object that is being used to represent something else

• A feeling of excitement, anxiety, or uncertainty about an event

• Information that clarifies what is happening in a moment or situation

• To rewrite something in your own words while maintaining its original meaning

Symbolism is

• A feeling of excitement, anxiety, or uncertainty about an event

• Information that clarifies what is happening in a moment or situation

• A claim that a writer is defending in an essay

• a word or object that is being used to represent something else

Setting is

• a word or object that is being used to represent something else

• A claim that a writer is defending in a paragraph or short response

• The time and place of a story

• The main point an author makes in a non-fiction text (or a section of a nonfiction text)

Argument is

• A claim that a writer is defending in a paragraph or short response

• Information that clarifies what is happening in a moment or situation

• A feeling of excitement, anxiety, or uncertainty about an event

• A universal message that can apply to real life or other stories

Thesis is

• Information that clarifies what is happening in a moment or situation

• The time and place of a story

• A claim that a writer is defending in an essay

• A universal message that can apply to real life or other stories

Context is

• Information that clarifies what is happening in a moment or situation

• A claim that a writer is defending in an essay

• To rewrite something in your own words while maintaining its original meaning

• The main point an author makes in a non-fiction text (or a section of a nonfiction text)

Paraphrase is

• To rewrite something in your own words while maintaining its original meaning

• A claim that a writer is defending in an essay

• A universal message that can apply to real life or other stories

• The time and place of a story

This usually appears at the end of an essay’s introduction.

• Central Idea

• Theme

• Setting

• Thesis