Vocab & Through the Tunnel

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

• Theme
• Defiance
• Context
• Hierarchy

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

• Central Idea
• Bleak
• Wriggling
• Setting

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

• Suspense
• Setting
• Symbolism
• Clambered

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

• Symbolism
• Innocence
• Persistence
• Supplication

The time and place of a story

• Setting
• Paraphrase
• Uncomprehending
• Imposing

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

• Argument
• Thesis
• Paraphrase
• Conscious

A claim that a writer is defending in an essay

• Thesis
• Clambered
• Defiance
• Wriggling

Information that clarifies what is happening in a moment or situation

• Context
• Suspense
• Argument
• Futile

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

• Paraphrase
• Tenuous
• Buoyant
• Craving

polite and respectful

• Civil
• Staggered
• Contrite
• Argument