Author's Purpose
To provide information about a topic.
What is informative author's purpose?
A figure of speech comparing two different things using "like" or "as".
What is a simile?
The writer gives details or examples of a topic to create a picture in the readers mind.
What is discription?
Who is mentioned or is a part in the story.
What is a character?
Relaxed and unconcerned or clothes or shoes suitable for everyday wear.
What does casual mean?
To amuse or interest the reader.
What is it to entertain?
A figure of speech comparing two different things without using the words "like" or "as".
What is a metaphor?
The writer explains one or more ways to solve a problem.
What is Problem and solution?
The events in the story.
What is the plot?
A breathy, gleeful laugh.
What is a chortle?
To share the steps in a process or explain how something works.
What is an explanatory author's purpose?
When exaggeration is used for emphasis.
What is a hyperbole?
The writer discusses how two or more things are alike or different.
What is to compare and contrast?
Where and when the story takes place.
What is the setting?
Hesitating or doubting.
What does dubious mean?
To paint a detailed picture of a topic by evoking the 5 senses.
What is to describe?
Figurative language using the repitition of constant sounds.
What is alliteration?
The writer focuses on something that has happened and tells why it happened.
What is cause and effect?
Central idea or message summarized with just one or a few words.
What is theme?
Force or oblige someone to do soemthing.
What does compel mean?
To influence the reader or to convince them of an idea.
What is persuation?
Giving human characteristics to things that are not human.
What is personification?
The writer describes steps or events in the order in which they occurred in time.
What is sequence?
The conclusion or ending of a story where the main conflict problem is solved.
What is resolution?
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