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MCAP
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Central/Main Idea | the point, message, or argument an author wants to convey about a topic |
| Details | True confidential information |
| Theme | Lesson learned from a piece of writing. |
| Claims | Expressing your right to something |
| Evidence | Anything used to prove something |
| Explanation/Reasoning | Statement about why something is the way it is. |
| Tone | Author’s attitude |
| Mood | How the reader feels |
| Conflict | Struggle or opposition. |
| Structure | Something of many parts put together. |
| POV | Personal feelings |
| Setting | Where something happens in a piece of writing. |
| Characters | The people in a piece of writing. |
| Plot | Sequence of major events in writing. |
| Authors Purpose | Author’s purpose for writing what he wrote. |
| Passage | Portion of written work. |
| Excerpt | Short portion of writing taken from something else. |
| Prompt | Instruction, topic |
| Stanza | Group of lines in poetry |
| Narrative | A story that can be fiction or nonfiction, and has a beginning, middle, and end. |
| Cause/Effect | What happened and why it happened. |
| Chronological Order | Order of events. |