Organizing & Remembering Info
Connotative vs. Denotative
Figurative Language
Tone, Inferences, Language
Evaluating: Asking Questions
100
When highlighting you should only highlight this percentage of a page?
What is 20-30 percent?
100
This is a word's dictionary meaning.
What is denotative?
100
This figure of speech uses like or as.
What is a simile?
100
What is an educated guess or prediction about something unknown based on the facts?
What is inference?
100
A writer may use these numbers- figures, percentages, averages, etc. to prove a point.
What is a statistic?
200
This notetaking strategy involves circling words you don't know and writing in the margins of your book.
What is marking?
200
The implied meaning of a word is this.
What is the connotative meaning?
200
This figure of speech compares two things without using "like" or "as."
What is a metaphor?
200
This is the writer's voice.
What is tone?
200
This is the person or organization that pays for a website.
What is the sponsor?
300
This method of organizing information is for visual learners and it is less structured than an outline and involved diagrams.
What is mapping?
300
Connotative meanings can carry two impressions. What are they?
What is positive or negative?
300
Figurative language is a way of describing something on this level rather than using the factual or literal meaning.
What is imaginative?
300
The first step in making an inference is understanding this meaning?
What is the literal meaning?
300
This is where you can often find the author of a textbook's credentials and qualifications.
What is the preface?
400
When writing a summary, ideas must be presented in what order?
What is the same order as they appear in the text/same as author?
400
Which carries a positive connotation? Request or Demand.
What is request?
400
Identify the famous figure of speech by Muhammad Ali. Float like a _____, sting like a ________.
What is butterfly and bee?
400
This type of language is factual and does not express feelings or attitudes.
What is objective?
400
When an author only gives you one side to an argument it is considered this.
What is biased or slanted?
500
Which type of review is done right after you have finished an assignment?
What is an immediate review?
500
Which carried a negative connotation? Audience or crowd.
What is crowd?
500
Figures of speech are used often in everyday speech and where else?
What is literature and/or poetry? (Credit for one or both)
500
This language tells you exactly how an author feels about a topic.
What is subjective language?
500
A writer who states that an idea (or controversial issue) is good or bad, wrong or right, is making one of these.
What is a value judgement?
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