GMAS Key Terms Review

passages that are stories, dramas, or poems.

• Integrate

• Argumentative texts

• Narrator

• Literary texts

to come to a reasonable conclusion based on evidence found in the text.

• Metaphor

• Characterization

• Inference

• Problem and solution

idea or message is fully stated or revealed by the author. The author tells the reader exactly what he or she needs to know.

• Informational texts

• Denotative meaning

• Inference

• explicit

A text's lesson or message

• Denotative meaning

• Central idea

• Theme

• Informational/explanatory texts

the most important point or idea that the author is making in a text

• Figurative language

• Central idea

• Narrative

• Affix

an overview of a text. It captures the main points but does not give every detail and does not include opinions

• Intensive pronoun

• Objective summary

• Figurative meaning

• Context clues

The specific order of a series of events that form a story

• Informational texts

• Antecedent

• Dashes

• Plot

the solution to the problem or the end of the main dramatic conflict. The end of the story.

• Tone

• Resolution

• Subjective/nominative pronoun

• Intensive pronoun

the way an author develops a character over the course of a text.

• Subjective/nominative pronoun

• Literary texts:

• Parentheses

• Characterization

Meanings that go beyond the literal meaning of a word or phrase.

• Formal style

• Figurative language

• Intensive pronoun

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