Any point that is arguable
What is a claim?
Uses pronouns like I, me, we
What is first person point of view?
A question asked to emphasize something or make a point; not meant to be answered
What is a rhetorical question?
What is a couplet?
Captions, headings, subheadings, italics, footnotes, illustrations, etc.
What are text features?
Facts, figures, statistics, expert testimony
What is evidence?
Uses pronouns like you or yours
What is second person point of view?
The exact opposite of what we expect happens
What is situational irony?
A group of lines in a poem; can be two, three, four, or more lines
What is a stanza?
A universal message contained in a fictional text
What is theme?
Cause and effect, Compare and contrast, Chronological
What are text structures or ways authors develop an argument?
Uses pronouns like he, she, they, him, her, their
What is third person point of view?
The use of symbols to represent ideas or qualities
What is symbolism?
A pattern of sounds in a poem that is assigned a letter from the alphabet for each unique sound
What is rhyme scheme?
A single, unifying idea in a nonfiction text
What is central idea?
Doctors, bankers, lawyers, accountants
What are experts?
What is third person omniscient?
We know something that the characters don't
What is dramatic irony?
What is an English Sonnet?
When an author uses specific words to impart a positive or negative connotation
What is diction?
Deductive, inductive, abductive
What are types of reasoning?
First person point of view that cannot be trusted
What is an unreliable narrator?
Sarcasm
A poem that is 19 lines and has a pattern of lines that repeat throughout the poem
What is a Villanelle?
When an author uses special punctuation or particularly long or short sentences for emphasis
What is syntax?