Reading Literary
The main message or lesson an author want readers to take away from a story.
What is Theme?
This is what a piece of writing is mainly about/what happens in a piece of writing.
What is Central Idea
This is the first attempt at actual writing and will usually be revised and edited before the final form.
What is a rough draft?
An author or speaker will support their argument using this.
What are reasons/evidence?
This punctuation usually represents a pause in a sentence or a shift from one idea to another.
What is a comma?
The author is the one who writes a story but this person is the one who is telling a story.
What is a narrator?
You have to do this (two words) when you want to provide backup for an answer that you give about a text.
What is Cite Evidence?
This is a statement that can be challenged/ argued against and needs evidence to support it.
What is a claim?
This is a type of text in which an author or speaker will address a crowd verbally for a number of reasons.
What is a speech.
This type of sentence normally does not contain a comma or any other type of punctuation even though the sentence may contain multiple ideas much like the very sentence you are reading right now at this moment in time on this very day but it won't have any breaks whatsoever.
What is a run-onsentence
This is the word for what happens in a story (hint: there are five parts or elements of this)
What is plot?
This two word phrase is used to describe the way a text is set up or organized.
What is text structure?
This type of writing tells a story.
What is narrative?
This is a type of multimedia presentation which may use text, audio, pictures or a number of different features.
What is Powerpoint?
These are words within a text that can help readers find the meaning of unknown words?
What are context clues?
This type of narrator usually knows all of the thoughts and feelings of all the characters in a story.
What is Third-Person Omniscient?
This is the word for the reason an author writes a particular text (three types: inform, entertain, or persuade).
What is author's purpose?
This type of writing just teaches readers about something they may not have known.
Informational
This type of evidence is true statements that can be proven.
What are facts?
Correct the sentence below:
We had a great time at the park running, laughing, and we played a bunch of games.
What is we had a great time at the park running, laughing, and playing a bunch of games?
These are (in order) the five elements of plot.
What are exposition (introduction), rising action, climax, falling action, and resolution (conclusion)?
This is the way an author feels about a particular subject, idea, or person. It is usually shown in the language the author chooses to use.
What is author's perspective or point of view?
This type of writing usually aims to make a specific point or convince readers to take action.
What is argument/persuasive?
This type of evidence is normally based on some type of numbers or percentages.
What are statistics?
This is a verb that functions as a noun, usually ending in -ing.
What is a gerund.