Point of View
Theme
Main Idea
Claims
100
The narrator uses "I" pronouns and participates in the action.
What is first-person point of view?
100
The main idea or message of a story
What is theme?
100
The most important point an author makes about a topic
What is the main idea?
100
The main idea or thesis of an argument
What is a claim?
200
The narrator uses 'you and participates in the action.
What is second-person point of view?
200
One way to infer tone is by looking at the characters and thinking about their ___________ and ___________.
What is a character's thoughts and feelings?
200
Ask yourself, what do these supporting ideas or details have in ____________.
What is common?
200
A point of view supported by a reason.
What is an argument?
300
A narrator knows the thoughts and feelings of every character. The narrator does not participate in the action.
What is third-person omniscient?
300
A number of Flies were attracted to a jar of honey which had been overturned in a housekeeper's room, and placing their feet in it, ate greedily. Their feet, however, became so smeared with the honey that they could not use their wings, nor release themselves, and were suffocated. Just as they were expiring, they exclaimed, "O foolish creatures that we are, for the sake of a little pleasure we have destroyed ourselves." Pleasure bought with pains, hurts.
What is don't be greedy?
300
You can determine main idea by looking at particular _______________.
What is details?
300
Claims are supported by _________ and __________.
What is reasons and evidence?
400
A narrator knows the thoughts and feeling of only one or two characters.
What is third-person limited omniscient point of view?
400
THE ANTS were spending a fine winter's day drying grain collected in the summertime. A Grasshopper, perishing with famine, passed by and earnestly begged for a little food. The Ants inquired of him, "Why did you not treasure up food during the summer?' He replied, "I had not leisure enough. I passed the days in singing." They then said in derision: "If you were foolish enough to sing all the summer, you must dance supperless to bed in the winter."
What is don't procrastinate?
400
A central or main idea may or may not be ____________ stated.
What is explicitly?
400
To determine whether an argument is convincing, you need to examine the claims and how well they are supported with evidence -- ____________, ____________, ____________, or____________.
What is facts, details, examples, or logical reasons?
500
The narrator is an observer. A 'police report' telling of the story.
What is third-person point of view.
500
ONCE UPON A TIME a Wolf resolved to disguise his appearance in order to secure food more easily. Encased in the skin of a sheep, he pastured with the flock deceiving the shepherd by his costume. In the evening he was shut up by the shepherd in the fold; the gate was closed, and the entrance made thoroughly secure. But the shepherd, returning to the fold during the night to obtain meat for the next day, mistakenly caught up the Wolf instead of a sheep, and killed him instantly.
What is don't pretend to be something you're not?
500
Two ways to identify central or main idea.
What is ask what the sentences in the text tell about? Identify what all of the details have in common.
500
____________ support ___________.
What is claims support arguments?
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