Text Structure 1
How information in a passage is organized.
What is Text Structure?
This is used to organize information when planning your writing
Graphic organizer.
What text structure would be BEST to use to write about the life of Abraham Lincoln?
Biography/chrolological order
The T in Soapstone
What is Tone?
What does describe mean?
tell about
This text structure is made up of two words...Time & Order
What is Chronological?
This Text Structure usually has steps to follow.
What is Sequence?
What text structure contains adjectives (ex. The baby blanket was soft, plush and smelled like powder and cotton candy.)
Description
The type of the writing sample you are analysizing.
What is Form?
What does analyze mean?
What text structure is this?
As the rain droplets fell against the glass window, they made a tink-tink-tinkity sound like teensy topaz gemstones being sprinkled over a mirror.
Descriptive
She is as fast as a cheetah.
What literary device is this?
What is a simile?
The type of text that describes facts and real events
Non-fiction
Unlike my parents, who love classical music, I detest it. What does the the word detest mean?
Intense dislike or extreme hate.
What does infer mean?
Name at least 3 types of figurative language/literary devices?
Metaphor, simile, personification, onomatopoeia, hyperbole, alliteration, idiom, oxymoron
Using these is an excellent way to organize material and provide the reader with a quick idea of the next passage's main content.
What are subheadings?
In a sentence containing a new word or phrase, often the sentences before or after it can provide the reader with clues regarding the meaning of the word. This is an example of what?
Context clues.
_____________ tells us who is telling the story and how they see it.
Point of view?
What does evaluate mean?
judge
What text structure is this?
Let's take a look at apples and oranges.
What is compare and contrast?
Text structure that contains because, therefore, if, then, etc.
Cause and Effect
The hours-long journey was a weight on my shoulders. What figurative language device is this?
Metaphor
What punctuation mark is used when showing someone is speaking?
Quotation marks.
What does formulate mean?
Create