Informational Text
This is the most important point of a paragraph or article.
What is the main idea?
The main point you are trying to prove in an essay.
What is a claim / thesis statement?
Using logic and facts to persuade.
What is logos?
The author of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.
Who is Mark Twain?
The narrator perspective used in Huckleberry Finn.
What is first person point of view?
Finding the author’s attitude toward a topic means identifying this.
What is tone?
This text structure explains why something happens and what happens as a result.
What is cause and effect?
Facts, statistics, and expert opinions are all types of this.
What is evidence?
Using trust, honesty, or credibility to persuade.
What is ethos?
Huck travels this river with Jim.
What is the Mississippi River?
The river symbolizes these ideas in the novel.
What are freedom, escape, and truth?
A statement that can be proven true.
What is a fact?
Looking at headings and pictures before reading helps readers do this.
What is prepare for the text?
(acceptable: preview / predict content)
The opposite side of an argument is called this.
What is a counterargument?
Using emotions like fear, pride, or pity to persuade.
What is pathos?
These two frauds pretend to be royalty.
Who are the Duke and the King?
When readers know helping Jim is right, but Huck thinks it is wrong.
What is dramatic irony?
A one-sided unfair opinion.
What is bias?
A caption is mainly used to do this.
What is explain a picture?
A short personal story used as proof in an essay is called this kind of evidence.
What is anecdotal evidence?
Using the same sentence pattern several times for effect is called this.
What is parallel structure?
im is shown as caring and loyal, which challenges racist beliefs of Twain’s society through this literary element.
What is characterization?
When a speaker says the opposite of what they truly mean, this is called this kind of irony.
What is verbal irony?
When answering reading questions, students often need to tell whether a statement is fact or this.
What is opinion?
If events are presented in time order from first to last, the structure is this.
What is chronological order?
The part of a paragraph where the writer explains why the proof matters is this part of PEEL.
What is Explanation?
A weak argument that says “all teenagers are lazy” uses this error in reasoning.
What is overgeneralization?
The raft is important because it often becomes a place of safety and this between Huck and Jim.
What is friendship?
Any tool used in writing or speaking to create an effect, such as repetition or metaphor, is a what?
What is a rhetorical device?
Recognizing whether a writer sounds serious, cheerful, or critical means identifying this.
What is tone?