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Author's Purpose
Theme
Lagnaippe
100
This is what the base -rupt means.
What is to break?
100
This is what the base leg, lig, lect means.
What is pick or read?
100
This is the reason an author writes.
What is the author's purpose?
100
This is the message of the story.
What is the theme?
100
The Catch of the Day is part of this genre.
What is drama?
200
This is what a volcano does.
What is erupt?
200
You must have good grades to be _______________ to play football in junior high school.
What is eligible?
200
This is a dessert. It is also a way to remember the three main purposes for which an author writes.
What is pie?
200
Fables often teach lessons. Those lessons are called __________.
What is morals?
200
Sometimes authors write to _________ their feelings. A journal or diary is an example of this.
What is express?
300
The Super Bowl was ____________ by a power outage.
What is interrupted?
300
Because he was not yet thirty-five, the senator was _____________ to run for president.
What is ineligible?
300
A coupon advertising 3 cantaloupes for $1.00 is meant to do this.
What is persuade?
300
This was the theme in a Bad Case of the Stripes.
What is to be yourself?
300
The Fox and the Crow is an example of a _____________.
What is a fable?
400
The truck came to an ___________ stop at the red light.
What is abrupt?
400
You may _________________ any of the types of prizes from the treasure chest.
What is select?
400
An article about managing your allowance is meant to do this.
What is inform?
400
This was the theme in The Lorax.
What is to protect the environment/nature?
400
Weslandia is part of the _________ genre?
What is fantasy?
500
If a teacher took money from a student and gave them an a, she would be ______________.
What is corrupt?
500
Your homework is so _________________ that I can't grade it.
What is illegible?
500
Romeo and Juliet, a play by William Shakespeare, is meant to do this?
What is entertain?
500
This books theme was that it is ok to be different.
What is Weslandia?
500
A drama uses this to convey the story. It occurs when two or more people speak in a story.
What is dialogue?
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