Fiction
A brief retelling of the major details of the story.
What is a summary?
This type of writing is factual in nature. Examples of this type of writing includes articles, reports, and autobiographies.
What is a nonfiction or informational text?
The author's attitude towards the subject.
What is tone?
Rewording a sentence so that it communicates its message more clearly.
What is revising?
What is editing?
This literary device helps build anticipation of what will happen next in the story.
What is suspense?
One of the following is NOT an organizational text structure for nonfiction text.
A. Define and describe
B. Cause and effect
C. Compare and Contrast
D. Rising action, climax, falling action
What is D. Rising action, climax, falling action?
True or False: Revising and editing are the same thing
What is False?
You should use this to check spelling and find the meaning of words.
What is a dictionary?
These are words that help you understand the meaning of a word in a sentence.
What are context clues?
*DAILY DOUBLE*
A conclusion reached on the basis of evidence and reasoning (an educated guess based in text evidence).
What is an inference?
Instead of being broken up into sentences and paragraphs, poetry is broken up into these.
BOTH WORDS
What are lines and stanzas?
True or false:
You always need to use a comma when combining sentences.
What is false?
Despite a challenging pandemic students continued to learn.
A. Comma after Despite
B. Capitalize Pandemic
C. Comma after pandemic
D. Change students to student
What is C. Comma after pandemic?
My mom said, "be careful who you let in your circle."
This dialogue creates which of the following
A. Flashback
B. Internal Conflict
C. Plot
D. Foreshadowing
What is D. Foreshadowing?
The reason an author writes a text.
Author's purpose
This is a literary technique when the author repeats words or phrases to emphasize something or make a point.
What is repetition?
You should do this when a statement is off-topic in a passage.
What is remove it/ delete it?
In her new book Rising Above, Janae Jones writes about overcoming obstacles.
A. Change writes to write
B. Comma after book
C. Capitalize Book
D. Change overcoming to over coming
What is B. Comma after book?
It was the kind of happenstance interaction anyone would likely write off as a weird New York City occurrence.
The word HAPPENSTANCE means:
A. meaningless B. dependable C. random D. calm
What is C. Random?
This is the author's claim statement/ the point they are trying to make. THE MOST IMPORTANT STATEMENT IN AN INFORMATIONAL TEXT.
What is the thesis statement?
This kind of conflict is when a character struggles with their own desires or beliefs.
What is internal conflict?
When two sentences are related and seem short and choppy individually, you should do this.
What is combine them?
Combine two sentences using a comma and a conjunction. Name the Conjunctions.
Hint: FANBOYS
What are For, And, Nor, But, Or, Yet, and So