Vocab
Artificial devices that replace injured or missing body parts.
What is Protheses?
What is Verbal Irony or Sarcasm?
This is the most important information that an informational text is trying to communicate.
What is a Central Idea?
This is the most important point that a text is trying to persuade the reader of.
What is a Thesis or Central Claim?
A series of events that cause one another in a chain reaction.
What is causal chain?
Containing Iron.
What is Ferrous?
This poem is composed of 14 lines and 4 stanzas.
What is a sonnet?
These are the specific facts that support the Central Idea in an informational text.
What is Supporting Details?
This is the goal of an argumentative text.
What is to persuade or convince the reader?
This is the main idea, lesson, observation, or moral from a story.
What is a theme?
The network of devices, including “smart” appliances, that are connected to the Internet.
What is the Internet of Things?
These are the three parts of a poem.
What is Rhyme Scheme, Rhythm, Structure?
An informational text should be this so that we know it is factual.
What is unbiased?
This supports the Thesis or Central Claim? It is a smaller chunk of the argument that the author makes.
What is a Supporting Claim?
Characters need this in a story.
What is Motivation and agency (or freewill)?
To distribute things again, but differently.
What is Redistribute?
A rhythm of unstressed/ stressed syllables and five feet in a line of poetry.
What is Iambic Pentameter?
In informational texts, these help illustrate supporting details and the central idea.
What is examples?
This is why unbiased evidence important in an argumentative text.
What is "It can help the argument be more persuasive by justifying it with fact?"
Name a theme from "the Brave Little Toaster."
What is "Technology can be dangerous, or society can be quick to judge, or do not overrely on technology?"
To annoy or bother someone.
What is Chafe?
The structure of a poem contains these three units.
What is stanza, line, and foot?
This is the Central Idea from "Are Bionic Superhumans on the Horizon."
What is "Technology can enhance our natural bodies?"
This is the central claim of the Automation Paradox.
What is "That automation does not negatively impact jobs and may actually create more jobs than it destroys?"
These are the steps in the roadmap of a story.
What is exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, and resolution?