Author's Purpose
Greek and Latin Roots
Text Structure
Analogies
Persuasive Techniques
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It's New! It's Refreshing! It's Slurpy Soda! This is the best soda in the world! If you drink this soda you will jump higher, run faster and be smarter in school. Try one today!
What is persuade?
100
insecticide An insecticide spray got rid of most of the sugar ants in the pantry.
What is something that kills insects?
100
“Would it surprise you to learn that corn is also a type of grass? It was first grown in Central America thousands of years ago. Its seeds are called kernels. Very few kernels grew on wild corn grass. It took thousands of years of choosing the corn grass plants with the biggest seeds, or kernels, to make what we enjoy today as corn on the cob.”
What is main idea cause and effect?
100
reservior : water :: bank :
What is money?
100
A crying child is shown covered in bug bites after using an inferior bug spray.
What is fear tactic?
200
Joe had been fishing for over two hours without a single bite. Suddenly there was a nibble at the end of his fishing line. He stood up on the boat and leaned out too far. Just then there was a sharp yank on the line. Joe fell overboard and landed head first into the water. Joe and his friends laughed and laughed.
What is entertain?
200
psychic The psychic predicted her future?
What is a person that reads minds?
200
“How do mountains like these disappear? The process begins with rain. As it rains, water seeps through cracks and joints in the stone. Chemicals in the water dissolve small grains of rock. Later on, the water freezes and thaws, prying loose bigger pieces of rock. These rocks grind against other rocks as they slide downhill. The wind carries away particles of dust left behind by these grinding rocks. In the end it can be said that wind, water, and gravity have hauled away these mountains.”
What is cause and effect?
200
house : shelter :: car :
What is Automobile?
200
Lebron James endorses Nike?
What is testimonial?
300
The giant panda is a bearlike animal that has thick white fur with black markings on its ears, limbs, shoulders, and around its eyes. The giant panda feeds on bamboo forests at high altitudes in western China. It also eats bulbs, roots, eggs, and some small mammals. The cubs are born in late winter. The giant panda is an endangered species and is protected by the Chinese government.
What is inform?
300
solitary The card game, Solitary, is fun to play when I am by myself.
What is a card game you play alone?
300
“In summer, when long daylight hours stimulate growth in the sparse vegetation, musk oxen live well and grow fat. In winter, food plants lie deep under hard-packed snow, which the oxen scrape away with their hooves. This is the hungry time, when they survive mainly on the fat that they stored during the summer. Others, too, are hungry, including bands of timber wolves, which sometimes follow the musk oxen. In spring, when the calves are born, the wolves become particularly menacing. The musk oxen form a defensive ring, with calves and young animals in the middle. Even a dozen wolves attacking together stand little chance against that circle of lowered heads and sturdy horns.”
What is problem/solution?
300
barber : razor :: ____________ scalpel
What is surgeon?
300
DOUBLE JEOPARDY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Cardiologists recommend Ecotrin more than any other brand of aspirin.
What is expert opinion?
400
An article about how jeans are made.
What is inform?
400
pentagon The village was in the shape of a pentagon.
What is a 5-sided polygon or shape?
400
“Imagine you have a solid substance, such as ice. Heat it, which makes its temperature rise. When it reaches a certain level, the temperature stops rising and the substance begins to turn into a liquid. This temperature is called the substance’s melting point. You keep heating. When all the solid has turned to liquid, the temperature begins to rise again. Eventually the temperature stops rising and the liquid begins to turn into a gas. The temperature at which this happens is called the boiling point. If you keep heating the temperature stays the same until all the liquid is gone. Then the temperature begins to rise again.”
What is sequence?
400
DOUBLE JEOPARDY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! century : decade :: ___________:year
What is decade?
400
Everyone who needs more energy drinks Red Bull Energy Drink.
What is bandwagon?
500
An article about why people should always pay their taxes.
What is to persuade?
500
DOUBLE JEOPARDY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! anthropoid One theory is early cavemen were anthropoids?
What is man that looks like an ape?
500
“The earth’s crust is made up mostly of hard, rocky substances, though some of these substances have crumbled into dirt from years of exposure to wind and rain and roots of plants. That crust is many miles thick (though the part under the ocean is thinner than the part on the land). Underneath the crust is a layer called the mantle. The mantle is about 1,800 miles thick. Below the mantle is the earth’s core, which is made up of two layers called the inner core and outer core.”
What is description or main idea and detail?
500
ewe : lamb :: _________ : fawn
What is doe?
500
A commercial shows an image of a happy couple riding in a Corvette.
What is emotional appeal?
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