What is to decide or to find out something: determine. What is how a story is told? For example, first or third person: point of view. What is the angle from which a story is told? The character's side of things: perspective. What is a reader's first ideas of what is happening in a text; the who or the what, the most important thing in 10 words or less: getting the gist. What is reading a text multiple times and using strategies to understand vocabulary, events, or ideas: close reading. What is to take notes on a text: annotate. What is word for word from the text: quote. What is putting what you know with what you read and making an educated guess: inference. What is a smaller section of text: excerpt. What is words in the sentences around a difficult word that give clues to its meaning: context clues. What is to place two things or characters side by side for the purpose of comparing, contrasting, or to evoke thought: juxtaposition. What is a problem that a character struggles with inside his or her mind: internal conflict