Vocabulary
A logical guess that is made based on facts and one's own knowledge and experience.
What is inference.
A line of text serving to indicate what the passage below it is about.
What is heading?
Identify a part of a piece of writing as being derived from a source.
What is cite?
Greeting.
What is salutation?
The writer's attitude toward his or her subject.
What is tone?
Specific piece of information that is offered to support a claim.
What is evidence?
A character in the story is actually telling the story himself/herself.
What is first person point of view?
A word's dictionary definition.
What is denotation?
The narrator tells what only one character thinks, feels, and observes.
What is third person point of view limited?
The perspective from which a story is told (first, third, third-person omniscient, third -person limited).
What is point of view.
An argument made to oppose another argument?
What is counterargument?
The arrangement or framework of a sentence, paragraph, or entire work.
What is structure?
A writer usually writes for one or more of these purposes: to express thoughts or feelings, to inform or explain, to persuade, and to entertain.
What is author's purpose?
Ideas or feelings associated with a word, as opposed to its dictionary definition?
What is connotation?
This is the all-knowing point of view where the narrator sees into the minds and knows the feelings of all the characters?
What is third person point of view omniscient?
Someone on the outside is looking in and telling the story as he/she see it unfold.
What is third person point of view.
A way of thinking that begins with a generalization, presents a specific situation, and then moves forward with facts and evidence toward a logical conclusion.
What is deductive reasoning.
Themes that are found throughout the literature of all time periods.
What is universal theme?
The process of logical reasoning that starts with observations, examples, and facts and moves on to a general conclusion or principle.
What is inductive reasoning.
Word choice.
What is diction?