Graphs and Charts
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What is a pie chart?
Words around the unknown word used to figure out the word
What are context clues
Overstatement or exaggeration
What is a hyperbole?
The author's attutude
What is tone?
Slanting the used information to persuade
What is bias
Arranged in vertical or horizontal bars
What is a bar graph?
Means the same
synonym
Saying the opposite of what you mean
Verbal Irony
author's opinions and way of looking at a topic
What is point of view?
Short concise review of facts in one's own words
What is a summary?
Diagram showing a progression of steps
What is a flow chart?
Tells exactly what the word means
What is a definition clue?
Attributing human characteristics to inanimate objects
Personification
Reason for writing
What is the author's purpose?
Compares using like or as
simile
Stacked on top of each other to show drastic differences
What is a cumulative chart?
Demonstrates or characterizes the word
What is an example clue?
Non-nonsensical phrases used to get the point across
Idioms
Something that can be proven
What are facts?
Moves the paragraph along smoothly
What are transition words?
continuous curve or frequency plotted on a continuous line
What is a Line graph?
Using the opposite of the word to define the word
What is an antonym clue?
The mean version of verbal irony
sarcasm
emotional language, "should" statements, value words (most, always) indicate
What is opinion?
When the author does not state directly
What is an inference?