A statement that unifies the main points of a text.
What is a central idea?
An appeal to logic, facts, or reasoning.
What is logos?
A life lesson, author's message, or moral of a story.
Includes specific examples that clarify the meaning of an unfamiliar term.
What is an example context clue?
When there is more than one of something (a noun); it ends in -s, -es, or -ies.
What is plural?
When a text or piece of media makes a reference to another text or piece of media.
What is an allusion?
An appeal to emotions.
What is pathos?
Adding notes giving explanation or comment.
What is annotating/to annotate?
The unfamiliar word is explained in the sentence.
What is an explanation context clue?
When a noun ends in an -'s or -s' to show ownership.
What is possessive?
The literal or main meaning of a word, as written in a dictionary.
What is denotation or definition?
An appeal to credibility, believability, likability, and/or ethics.
What is ethos?
The three types of paragraphs an essay should include.
What are introduction, body, and conclusion?
What is stating something implicitly?
The first-person pronoun used when it is the object of a sentence.
What is "me"?
The idea or feeling that a word invokes in addition to its definition.
What is connotation?
The way that an author or speaker feels about the topic they are writing/speaking about.
What is tone?
To sum up the main points of a text in a shortened statement.
What is to summarize?
Has words that clearly mean the opposite of the unknown word in the sentence.
What is an antonym context clue?
The first-person pronoun used when it is the subject of a sentence.
What is "I"?
When an object represents something else, especially in literature.
What is a symbol/to symbolize?
The way that the audience feels when they hear a speaker or read a text.
What is mood?
To carefully examine a text, adding your own thoughts and opinions.
What is to analyze/an analysis?
Contains a word (or multiple words) that mean the same thing as an unfamiliar term.
What is a synonym context clue?
If I were making a sign for the Curtis family reunion, how would I write "Curtis" as plural and possessive?
Curtises'