4/24 ELA FAST Vocabulary Review

to persuade, inform, or entertain (PIE)

• The purpose of most fiction is...

• foreshadowing

• author's purpose for writing

• first person

to influence someone's thoughts or actions/behavior; to convince. (You are not only giving facts. You are giving your own opinion on a subject.)

• protagonist

• figurative language

• point of view (POV)

• persuade

to give information or facts

• cause and effect

• inform

• rising action

• figurative language

to amuse and engage readers and keep them reading

• examples: sad, informal, angry, excited, serious

• external conflict

• connotation

• entertain

to inform (and sometimes persuade)

• climax

• lyric poem

• The purpose of most nonfiction is...

• external conflict

to entertain

• cite

• flashbacks

• The purpose of most fiction is...

• Commas are used...

the overarching, big picture idea in a story/article that gets repeated and supported by other facts. In other words, this is what the story/article is really about. It's the topic+the author's point about the topic.

• main idea/central idea

• supporting details

• convey

• poetry

statements which support your topic by giving information about it through facts, examples, etc.

• personification

• man versus society

• supporting details

• excerpt

the events in a story

• Open response questions are

• text structures

• analyze

• plot

the time and place of story / usually established in the beginning but can change throughout the plot

• direct characterization

• setting

• three points of view

• summarize