Come to a reasonable conclusion based on evidence found in the text. By contrast, an explicit idea or message is fully stated or revealed by the author. The author tells the reader exactly what he or she needs to know.

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The lesson or message. For example a story could be about two friends who like to do things together, and the theme might be the importance of friendship.

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The most important point or idea that the author is making in a passage. AKA the main idea

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An overview of a passage that captures the main points but does not give every detail and does not include opinions.

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The specific order of a series of events that form a story is known as;

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refers to the way an author develops a character over the course of a passage

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refers to where and when a story takes place, including the time of day, the season, or the location.

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In most stories, there is a conflict or problem, this is the solution to the problem

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You need to distinguish between literal and

figurative meanings of words and phrases. Literal refers to the actual meaning of a word or phrase. For example, if someone tells you to open the door, you can open a physical door. If someone tells you to open the door to your heart, you are not expected to find a door in your chest. Instead, you open up your feelings and emotions.

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When a writer describes an object as if it were an object as if it were a person.

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A comparison using like or as.

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a direct comparison that states one thing is another.

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exaggeration beyond belief

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a quirky expression or saying that is specific to a language.

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the use of the same sound to start several words in a row

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A meaning beyond the explicit meaning of a word

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a speech in a literary text or drama in which a character tells the audience how he or she feels by talking to herself or himself.

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a form of poetry that contains fourteen lines and a special rhyme scheme. A sonnet contains four stanzas, or sections of a poem

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The perspective from which a story is told

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analyzing two things, such as characters or stories, in relation to each other/ is specifically analyzing the differences between two things, such as two different characters or stories

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the category of a text, such as fiction or nonfiction.

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a factual description of situations, occasions, or events that actually occurred in the past.

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passages that explain or inform.

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

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a statement that can be proven/is a statement that cannot be proven, as it states an author’s belief or judgment about something.

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refer to how ideas influence individuals or events or how individuals influence ideas or events

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The explicit meaning of a word

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the meaning of a word as it relates to a specific subject or process.

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found in writing is the attitude of an author about a subject or an audience.

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refers to the way in which a passage is structured.

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can include chronological order, cause and effect, compare and contrast, order of importance, and problem and solution.

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the order in which a series of events happened.

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This is a relationship in which one thing causes another thing to happen.

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organizes text by listing supporting details from most important to least important, or by least important to most important.

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identifies a problem and proposes one or more solutions.

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the author’s intention for his or her writing.

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The opinion of the author is known

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the main argument made by the author.

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A reasonable argument that opposes or disagrees with another claim

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When an author holds a strong opinion or belief about his or her topic

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Something that proves or demonstrates the truth of something else

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refers to reasoning that makes sense and follows some sort of logic.

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refers to reasoning that makes sense and follows some sort of logic.

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forms of writing in which the writer makes a claim and supports that claim with reasons and evidence.

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the main statement of an argumentative text, which usually appears in the introduction

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A reasonable argument that opposes or disagrees with another claim

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the beginning of a piece of writing.

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refers to the way in which a piece of writing is structured.

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Reasons given to support a writer’s claims

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For a claim to be effective, it must be supported with (a)  

refer to the ways in which ideas are connected

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refers to the flow of sentences and paragraphs from one to another.

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used in formal writing, such as an essay, research paper, or formal letter.

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the end of a piece of writing

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Forms of writing that inform the reader or explain something are known

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what a piece of writing is about

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the way in which a piece of writing is organized, designed, and arranged.

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refers to a variety of media

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a word, phrase, or clause that links one idea to the next

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Specific and vivid words and phrases describe or explain and make meaning clear

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a real or imaginary story that may be about a situation, a single moment in time, or a series of related events and experiences.

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an event or series of events that happen to or are seen by a character.

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a single thing that happens to a character or that a character sees

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Good writers engage or interest readers and pull them into the narrative by sharing important information that will allow readers to understand what follows. Good writers create context, which is the background information about a story’s setting, environment, or structure, to help readers understand what the story means

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the person the writer chooses to tell a story

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persons, things, or beings in stories

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the order of events in a narrative

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the tools writers use to create interesting experiences, events, and characters in a story

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show the reader the exact words the characters are saying

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to help the reader imagine the characters, settings, and events.

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the speed at which a story is told.

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The reader needs clues in a story to help them know how time is passing and how events are ordered

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Specific and vivid words and phrases describe or explain and make meaning clear

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describes concrete words and phrases in a way that allows the reader to experience the way things look, sound, smell, taste, or feel through imagination

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The end can be anywhere the writer chooses to stop writing. But the reader needs to feel like the story is over

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The people who will be reading the piece of writing

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Most informational or technical pieces require research and revision before they can be considered to be finished pieces

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the gathering of information in order to learn more about a topic.

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refers to a book, article, website, person, or piece of media that contains information

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means to use someone else’s ideas and to express those ideas in your own words

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refers to presenting the words, works, or ideas of someone else as though they are one’s own and without providing attribution to the author

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the way the author tells readers that certain details or information included in the text come from another source

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refers to the set of rules for language

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a group of words working together as a unit.

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a group of words that contains a subject and a verb

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expresses a single complete thought and contains a subject and a verb

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contains two independent clauses joined by a conjunction

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contains an independent clause joined by one or more dependent clauses

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has two independent clauses and at least one dependent clause

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a word, phrase, or clause that is improperly separated from the word it modifies/describes

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a phrase or clause that is not clearly and logically related to the word or words it modifies

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refers to writing marks that help to separate and clarify ideas

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Adjectives that appear in a sequence to modify the same noun

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Using a phrase or word that repeats something else and is unnecessary

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t refers to words and phrases that surround another word and help to explain its meaning.

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the words, facts, or ideas in a text that explain a difficult or unusual word

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the foundation of a word

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refers to letters that are added to a root word that change its meaning

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a reference book that provides the precise, or exact, meanings of words and phrases

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an alphabetical list of words and phrases and their meanings. A glossary is often found at the end of a text

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an indirect reference to something

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quirky sayings and expressions specific to a language

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a word that imitates the natural sound of something

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the use of words that have repetition of similar vowel sounds but are not rhyming words

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a word or phrase that has a meaning beyond the literal meaning of the word

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a word or phrase that means exactly or nearly the same thing as another word or phrase in the same language

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s a word or phrase that means the opposite of a word or phrase in the same language

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a comparison between two things that helps to express the relationship or connection between the words

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an implied meaning—it is the meaning the writer intends, which may not be the same thing as the literal or dictionary meaning of a word

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the exact definition of a word

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