GMA Key Term Vocabulary

The events in the beginning, middle and end of the story

• Summarize
• Setting
• Plot
• Theme

Events and their outcomes

• cause and effect
• point of view
• textual evidence
• figurative language

The opinion or perspective of the author on a specific topic

• figurative langage
• textual evidence
• cause and effect
• point of view

The lesson or message

• theme
• plot
• settting
• summarize

To give the main events of a story in the order in which they happen

• plot
• theme
• setting
  compare and contrast
• summarize

Language where you must distinguish between literal and figurative meanings of words and phrases

• figurative language
• compare and contrast
• cause and effect
• textual evidence

When and where a story takes place, including the time of day, the season, or location

• theme
• summarize
• setting
• plot

Supporting you opinion with facts, opinions of experts, quotations, statistics, and definitions from the passage

• summarize
• theme
• cause and effect
• textual evidence

Pieces of writing that inform or explain something to the reader

• cause and effect
• compare and contrast
• informational/expository texts
• point of view

Analyzing two things such as characters or stories in relation to each other and analyzing the differences between things

• figurative language
• compare and contrast
• textual evidence
• information/expository texts