AUTHORS
STORIES
SKILLS
WRITING
POTPOURRI
100
to entertain, to inform, or to persuade
What is author's purpose?
100
tells the time and the place of the story
What is the setting?
100
statement that can be proven
What is a fact?
100
comparing two things using like or as
What is a simile?
100
does not exist
What is nonexistent?
200
first person
What is the author's point of view?
200
the events in a story
What is the plot?
200
statement that is a feeling about something
What is an opinion?
200
comparing two things without using like or as
What is a metaphor?
200
two words that mean the same thing
What is a synonym?
300
third person (omniscent)
What is author's point of view?
300
the beginning, middle, and end
What are the 3 parts to a story?
300
what happens and why it happens
What is a cause and effect statement?
300
things in nature are given human qualitites
What is personification?
300
two words that mean the opposite
What is an antonym?
400
the reason the story/selection was written
What is author's point of view?
400
where the problem in a story is solved
What is the conclusion?
400
to make a guess based on evidence from the text
What is an inference?
400
making something out to be bigger or more important than it really is
What is an exaggeration?
400
any information that tends to prove something
What is evidence?
500
to describe the qualities that make up a character in a story
What is characterization?
500
your judgement about something based on clues from the story
What is drawing a conclusion?
500
a basic statement that something is true
What is generalization?
500
the most important information of a paragraph/article
What is the main idea?
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