Weekly Vocabulary

Week 1

Author’s Purpose—Why an author writes. What is the purpose?
Main Idea—It is the big picture of a text, often summed up in a single sentence.
Supporting Details—facts, examples, and reasons that explain, prove, or expand upon a main idea.
Drawing Conclusions—the process of making a judgment or decision by combining clues from text or events with your own background knowledge. It means figuring out something that is not directly stated.
Story Elements—characters (the people or animals in the tale), setting (the time and place), plot (the events that happen), conflict (the main problem), and resolution (how the problem gets fixed). Many stories also include a theme (the big life lesson or message).

What Are The Elements of a Story?

1. Characters are important elements of the story. The entire story revolves around the life of the characters. They help in developing the story into an interesting one. Authors create fun and full of life characters so that the readers can enjoy their life. Readers also tend to relate to the characters a lot. The author introduces the characters by giving details about their appearances and personality. Every story has one main character and one evil character. They are known as protagonist and antagonist. Their actions and behaviors lead towards the conflict and rlimax of the story. Without thse characters, the story is incomplete.

2. Setting-- The setting of the story refers to the culture, place, location, and environment of the story. It plays a huge role in the development of the story. The author introduces the settings by giving details regarding the surroundings of the characters. Many stories contain unusual settings such as a fantay world that grab the interest of the readers.

3. Plot-- The plot is the storyline. It refers to the series of events tht happen in the story. The plot should be written in a way that is clear to the readers. Readers do not like complexities in understanding the plot. With a clear start, middle, and end, the readers can make sense of the plot.

4. Conflict-- Conflict is the most interesting part of the story. It is the part where the main character faces some sort of difficulty. The difficulty is either created by the antagonist or natural disaster. The conflict revolves around the character's struggles to make everything better and normal.

5. Resolution-- Resolution is the ending part of the story. It tells you the consequences of all the actions taken by different characters on the story. Usually, the author mentions a message for the readers in the end.

6. Theme-- Theme is another important element in literature as the content without any theme is regarded as impractical and useless. Theme of the content is its idea, message, or any other important infomation that he writer wants to convey through the writing.