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| When, where, what time period or location the story takes place in. |
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| The emotion of a story, how the author portrays the feelings of the setting. |
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| Tone is the attitude that an author takes toward the audience, the subject, or the character. Tone is conveyed through the author's words and details. |
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| The point of highest dramatic tension or a major turning point in the action. |
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| A narrative device, often used at the beginning of a work, that provides necessary background information about the characters and their circumstances. Exposition explains what has gone on before, the relationships between characters, the development of a theme, and the introduction of a conflict. |
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| The conclusion of a plot’s conflicts and complications. |
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| Why the author wrote the story. |
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| What an object or idea could represent or stand for.A person, object, image, word, or event that evokes a range of additional meaning beyond and usually more abstract than its literal significance. |
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| Sensory details are descriptive words that evoke response from one or more of the five senses. |
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| The main idea is the most important idea or concept in the story |
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| Give more information about the topic. They are not as general as the main idea. Instead, they help the reader understand more about the main idea. |
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| A true statment that can be backed by evidence. |
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| A personla belief or judgement that can change from person to person and has no subsatncial evidence. |
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| Refers to who tells us a story and how it is told. What we know and how we feel about the events in a work are shaped by the author’s choice of point of view. |
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