Keystone Lit Terms 5

A category used to classify literary works usually by form, technique, or content (e.g., prose, poetry)

• Genre

• Informational Text

• Imagery

• Inference

A judgement based on reasoning rather than on a direct or explicit statement. A conclusion based on facts or circumstances; understanding gained by “reading between the lines”. 

• Gemre

• Informational Text

• Inference

• Implicit

To give reasons through an explanation to convey and represent the meaning or understanding of a text. 

• Inference

• Irony

• Key/Supporting Details

• Interpret

The use of a word or phrase to mean the exact opposite of its literal or usual meaning; incongruity between the actual result of sequence of events and the expected result. 

• Implicit

• Irony

• Interpret

• Key/Supporting

Points of information in a text that strongly support the meaning or tell of the story. Statements that define, describe, or otherwise provide information about the topic, theme or main idea. 

• Informational Text

• Implicit

• Key/Supporting Details

• Irony

Any visual cues on a page of text that offers additional information to guide the reader’s comprehension. Typically are words or phrases in bold print that indicates a topic or the theme of a portion of the text; graphics may be photographs, drawings, maps or any other pictorial representation; charts (and tables or graphs) condense data into a series of rows, lines or other shortened lists. 

• Headings, Graphics and Charts

• Hyperbole

• Imagery

• Implicit

Through unexpressed in the actual text, meaning that may be understood by the reader; implied. 

• Implicit

• Hyperbole

• Informational Text

• Inference

Nonfiction written primarily to convey fractal information. Informational texts comprise the majority of printed material adults read (i.e textbooks, newspapers, reports, directions, brochures, technical manual)

• Informational Text

• Hyperbole

• Inference

• Imagery

Descriptive or figurative language in a literary work; the use of language to create sensory impressions. 

• Inference

• Imagery

• Informational Text

• Implicit

An exaggeration or overstamtent (i.e. I had to wait forever) 

• Hyperbole

• Inference

• Informational Text

• Implicit