English 10 ATLAS Key Words

The perspective from which the events in a story, poem, or play are told

• point of view

• indicate

• imagery

• convey

Give

• motivation

• falling action

• provide

• exhibit

Important idea

• demonstrate

• enhances

• key idea

• tone

The way the author makes the reader feel through certain words or details

• call to action

• symbolism

• mood

• setting

Help create

• falling action

• shifts

• demonstrate

• contribute to

The main problem in a story, poem, or play

• imagery

• resolution

• conflict

• call to action

When the author gives human qualities to an object, animal, or idea

• argument

• imagery

• personification

• connotation

The central idea, message, or moral of a story, poem, or play

• setting

• contrast

• speaker

• theme

A group of lines in a poem

• intended

• contrast

• stanza

• playwright

To find differences between things

• contrast

• rebut

• rising action

• impact