General Terms
Elements of informational text that give clues about the text's meaning
What is text features?
The literal meaning of a word is called its _________________ meaning.
What is denotative?
A text organization that identifies the similarities and differences between two people, things, or ideas
What is compare-and-contrast?
To give a short recap of a section of text
What is summarize?
a statement that takes a position on a topic and can be argued with evidence
What is a claim?
The reason an author created a text
What is author's purpose?
A title in a nonfiction text that indicates a major section of the information
What is heading?
A text organization that focuses on describing the factors that influenced an event
What is cause-and-effect?
giving credit to source material used in a text
What is citation?
An author's idea on a topic that may or may not be backed by facts
What is opinion?
A genre of text that shares true information instead of imagined information
What is non-fiction?
A type of word that has an emotional meaning and a dictionary meaning
What is connotative?
A type of text organization that tells events in the order they occurred
What is chronological?
To restate a text passage in your own words
What is paraphrase?
facts and details that support a claim
An author's attitude toward a topic in a text
What is tone?
A list of key words with page numbers where those words appear in the text; usually in the back of a text
What is index?
A text organization that prioritizes information and presents it in order from most valuable to least valuable or least valuable to most valuable.
What is order of importance?
A source that was written by an author who did not directly experience an event
What is secondary source?
Reasoning that appeals to the reader's emotions
What is propaganda?
The type of thinking about text that requires the reader to "read between the lines" and put information together
What is inference?
Bolded words in informational text typically denote________ _________
What is key terms?
A text that describes a space in terms of how someone would walk through it
What is spatial?
A source written by an author who directly experienced an event
What is primary source?
Reasoning that breaks the rules of logic
What is fallacious reasoning?