Vocabulary
This strategy uses roots and affixes to determine a word's meaning.
What is morphology?
What is cause and effect?
The author's attitude toward a subject is called this.
A text teaching how to change a tire has this purpose?
What is to inform?
A statement that expresses an author's position on an issue is called this.
What is a claim?
The prefix anti- means this:
What is against?
A speech that begins with a story, presents evidence, and ends with a call to action demonstrates this.
What is organizational structure?
Short, choppy sentences often create this effect.
A commercial encouraging purchases has this purpose.
What is persuade?
Facts, statistics, examples, and quotations used to support a claim are called this.
What is evidence?
Determining a word's meaning from surrounding sentences uses these.
What are context clues?
A text that discusses similarities and differences uses this structure.
What is compare and contrast?
Repeating "We will succeed" throughout a speech creates this.
What is emphasis?
A memoir describing personal experiences serves this purpose.
What is entertain? or What is share experiences?
A weakness in reasoning that makes an argument less convincing is called this.
What is a logical fallacy?
The root bene means this.
What is good or well?
An author begins with a surprising statistic primarily to do this.
What is hook the audience?
Understanding purpose helps readers understand this.
What is author's message?
If an author includes expert testimony and research studies, the author is primarily strengthening this.
What is an argument's credibility?
Choosing "determined" instead of "stubborn" affects this.
What is connotation?
Changing the sequence of events affects this.
What is meaning or emphasis?
An author uses formal language because of this factor.
What is audience?
What is to persuade?
If you've already covered argument heavily, consider on of these instead:
What is addressing and responding to opposing viewpoints to strengthen the argument?