Text Struture
Author's Purpose
Context
Figure 19.D
Anything Goes
100
The acronym 3C'sDP represents these 5 elements of text structure.
What is cause/effect, compare/contrast, chronology(sequence), description, and problem/solution?
100
The four aspects of author's purpose includes this.
What is to persuade, inform, entertain, and explain?
100
In the following statement, the word confiscated means: Joanne’s mother came up to the school to get the cell phone the teacher had confiscated.
What is to take away or be taken?
100
The following is this type of question: What is the best summary of the selection?
What is a summary question?
100
Give me three examples of conflict. (There are a total of 5)
What is man vs. man, man vs nature, man vs God, man vs. machine, man vs. himself?
200
This type of text structure has an issue presented and there are methods of solving it introduced.
What is problem/solution?
200
The following text would be written to do what for the audience: An encyclopedia entry about endangered animals and efforts to protect them.
What is to inform them?
200
In the following example the word consumed refers to John doing this to the muffin: John was so hungry that he consumed the cranberry muffin and went back for a donut.
What is he ate it?
200
The following question stem would be used to identify this type of question: Paragraph 3 and 4 are mainly about...
What is a main idea question?
200
The following is an example of this question type: The author organizes the information in this selection by...
What is a text structure question?
300
This type of text structure tells you what happened and why it happened.
What is cause/effect?
300
The following is trying to do this for the audience: A Garfield comic from the newspaper in which Garfield hates Mondays and likes lasagna.
What is to entertain them?
300
In the following sentence, universally could mean: Jim wanted to ask Janet to the dance, but he felt it a universally acknowledged truth that popular girls like her didn’t go with unpopular guys like him.
What is known by people everywhere?
300
The following question stem would be used to identify this type of question: You can tell the narrator probably wanted...
What is an inference question?
300
The following is an example of which type of figurative language: Instead, I hear winds whisper: Free land! You made a choice.
What is personification?
400
The following is this type of text structure example:Having good attendance is important because attendance determines the school’s funding. Some students have poor attendance, and the school has tried many ways of addressing this: teachers have talked to parents on the phone and the school has mailed letters. Yet, some students still maintain poor attendance. Next, the staff will attempt to schedule parent/teacher/administrator conferences with students who are habitually absent. Hopefully, this will help more students get to school everyday.
What is problem/solution?
400
The following statement would like to do this for the audience: A brochure about how people shouldn’t shop at Walmart because they hurt local businesses.
What is to persuade them?
400
In the following, the word established means: Even though peace between the two formerly warring nations had been established for years now, the solider still woke cold from dreams of battle.
What is already in place or put into place?
400
The following question stem would be used to identify this type of question: Which of the following conclusions can you draw about the main character?
What is an inference question?
400
This literary elements is used to give hints about what may happen later in a story.
What is foreshadowing?
500
The following is an example of this type of text structure: These days, students and their caretakers have more choices when it comes to selecting a public school. In addition to the traditional neighborhood schools, Charter schools have popped up in major cities across the country. Both charter schools and neighborhood schools fill traditional roles like providing instruction, serving lunch and other meals, and administering the state tests. But charter schools and neighborhood schools differ in many important ways. One key difference is the amount of time students spend in school. In Chicago, students who attend neighborhood schools do so for around 180 days in a year, and each day is slightly over six hours long. On the contrary, students who attend charter schools do so for around 200 days in a year, and most charter school days are over eight hours long. While both neighborhood and charter schools provide free public education to students meeting enrollment criteria, students who attend charter schools spend much more time in class.
What is compare/contrast?
500
The instructions that may have come with your cell phone was made available to do this for its' audience.
What is to explain?
500
In the following example, the word consented means: Jake asked his mother for permission to go to his friend Rodney’s dance party, stating that his grades had improved, and he was quite pleased when she consented.
What is to give permission or agree?
500
The following example best portrays this type of question stem: Which sentence below best paraphrases paragraph 4?
What is a summary question?
500
This literary element is used to interrupt the sequence of events in a story to show something that happened in the past.
What is a flashback?
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