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Ideas and Characters
Developing Ideas and Characters Vocab Words
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| analyze | breaking something down into parts |
| anecdotes | a personal account of a story that relates to what you are reading in text |
| central idea | the main idea of a non-fiction text |
| characters | antagonist or protagonist of a story |
| conveyed | an author's communicated message |
| details | information or facts that support the main idea |
| determine | to come to a conclusion |
| distinct | clear and specific |
| elaborated | explaining with supporting details from the text |
| episodes | a series of events in a drama or a story |
| illustrated | to paint a picture of what you've read in the text or story |
| judgements | making an opinion based on feelings and not facts |
| opinions | judgements based on feelings and emotions |
| plot | what happens in a story and how it happens in a story, includes the 5 elements of plot (exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, resolution) |
| provide | giving the reader information |
| resolution | the conflict is resolved or has ended |
| summary | a recap of the text without opinions |
| theme | the moral or lesson of a story/central idea of a literary text |