3-10 Weekly Vocab Quiz

The ____________ is the unifying concept within an informational text to which other elements and ideas relate.

• plot

• setting

• theme

• central idea

An ____________ is a brief account of a text’s central or main points, themes, or ideas that is free of bias, prejudice, and personal opinion and does not incorporate outside information.

• allusion

• objective summary

• relevant evidence

• transition

A ____________ can be anything that students can read, write, view, listen to, or explore, including books, photographs, films, articles, music, art, and more.

• plot

• text

• griot

• theme

The ____________ refers to the sequence of events in a story, play, movie, etc.

• setting

• theme

• plot

• text

The ____________ of a story refers to the time and place of the action.

• plot

• setting

• allusion

• theme

____________ is the subject or underlying meaning that a literary text directly or indirectly explains, develops, and/or explores.

• Text

• Plot

• Setting

• Theme

An ____________ is an indirect reference to a person, place, object, literary work, historical event, etc. from an external context.

• theme

• allusion

• setting

• plot

____________, observations, ideas, and descriptive details are closely connected and appropriate elements when making claims.

• Relevant evidence

• Transitions

• Themes

• Griots

____________ are words and phrases that are used to indicate a shift from one topic, idea, point, step, etc. to another, allowing an author to highlight the nature of the relationship and/or connection between them.

• Transitions

• Plots

• Allusions

• Themes

A ____________ is a member of a class of traveling poets, musicians, and storytellers who advises those in power.

• Setting

• Theme

• Plot

• Griot