Critical Lens Steps
Context Clues
Commonly Confused Words
Critical Lens Details
Literary Elements
100
The number of Body Paragraphs in the essay.
What is two?
100
Corona refers to the outermost part of the sun's atmosphere.
What is Definition?
100
Possessive form of "it"
What is its?
100
Tells the reader what the paragraph will be about.
What is topic sentence?
100
The perspective by which the story is told
What is point of view?
200
The acronym used to identify the literary works that you will use for support.
What is TAG?
200
Aside from words in the sentence, this can be used to figure out the word's meaning.
What is punctuation?
200
Means also
What is too?
200
Reminds the reader what the main idea of the paragraph is.
What is concluding sentence?
200
The problem in a story
What is conflict?
300
The "A" in SEALS means this.
What is Agree / Disagree
300
The number of types of context clues.
What is five?
300
Word used to compare.
What is than?
300
A Critical Lens essay is this type of essay.
What is persuasive?
300
The character who is faced with a problem.
What is protagonist?
400
The parts of a conclusion.
What is restate thesis, summarize main point of Body paragraphs, and include a statement about life?
400
The use of reasoning skills to figure out word meanings.
What is Inference?
400
Location
What is there?
400
What the first and last sentence of each body paragraph of a Critical Lens essay have in common.
What is they connect the work of literature to the quote?
400
The lesson learned.
What is theme?
500
This previews the paper for your reader, connecting the quote to your examples.
What is the thesis? (Show where you will go)
500
"One of the dinner guests succumbed to the temptation to have a second piece of cake, but the others resisted" demonstrates this type of clue.
What is contrast?
500
Affect / effect: The verb
What is affect?
500
Every single sentence in your essay does this.
What is relate to quote?
500
When an outside character tells the story, but the reader knows what all characters are thinking.
What is third person omniscient?
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