Test Prep Vocab 8

This is the reason for creating written work.

• author's purpose

• article

• authorized biography

• analyze

This is the relationship between two or more events in which one event brings about another.

• cause and effect

• chronological order

• central argument

• characters

The key point made in a passage is called its _____ idea.

• cause and effect

• central

• central argument

• characters

This is the dominant and controlling argument.

• central argument

• central

• cause and effect

• contrast

This is the combination of ways that an author shows readers what a person in a literary selection is like.

• characters

• characterization

• central argument

• cause and effect

This verb means to separate a whole into its parts and then look more closely at those parts.

• analyze

• antagonist

• article

• audience

This is the person or force that creates conflict for the main character in a literary work.

• analyze

• antagonist

• article

• audience

This is a nonfiction prose composition that is part of a magazine or newspaper that usually deals with a single topic.

• analyze

• antagonist

• article

• audience

This is whoever will be reading, listening or watching a story, text or drama.

• analyze

• antagonist

• article

• audience

This is a form of nonfiction where an author tells the life story of another person and that person approves the writing.

• authorized biography

• author's purpose

• audience

• article