Narrative
What the story is about.
What is main idea?
The purpose of informative writing.
What is to inform/teach?
Explanatory writing focuses on doing this.
What is explaining a topic clearly?
The name of the person who takes in the Baudelaire children after their parents die.
What is Count Olaf?
The person who solves the mystery.
What is a detective?
The struggle or problem in a story.
What is conflict?
Facts, statistics, and examples used to support information.
What is evidence?
The sentence that tells what the piece will be about.
What is a thesis statement or central idea?
How many Baudelaire children are there.
What is 3.
The mysterious real-life case involving a man who disappeared after hijacking a plane.
What is the D.B. Cooper mystery?
The point in the story with the highest tension.
What is climax?
A source that can be trusted and verified.
What is a credible source?
The details that support the central idea.
What are supporting details/evidence?
Count Olaf's neighbor
What is Justice Strauss?
The famous pilot who disappeared while flying over the Pacific Ocean.
Who is Amelia Earhart?
The main character of the story.
What is a protagonist?
Information copied word-for-word from a source.
What is a direct quote?
Words like "for example," "because," and "therefore" help show this.
What are transitions?
Parenst died in a what
What is a house fire?
Which country was the vanishing train found in.
What is Mexico?
Using human traits for non-human things.
What is personification?
Putting information into your own words.
What is paraphrasing?
The section that wraps up the explanation and reinforces the main idea.
What is the conclusion?
What was Count Olaf's evil plan.
What is to marry violet and steal the fortune.
The word carved in a tree when John White returned back to Roanoke Island.
What is Croatoan?