Author’s Purpose & Theme
This answers WHY the author wrote the text (to inform, persuade, entertain).
What is author’s purpose?
Finding the most important idea in a text.
What is central/main idea?
A comparison using “like” or “as.”
What is a simile?
A sentence that contains a subject and a predicate.
What is a complete sentence?
The “H” in HOT stands for this.
What is hook?
A universal message or lesson about life found in a text.
What is theme?
Clues from the text that support an answer.
What is text evidence?
Giving human traits to non-human things.
What is personification?
Two independent clauses incorrectly joined together.
What is a run-on sentence?
The overview should include this.
What is a brief summary of the text?
This type of purpose tries to convince the reader to think or act a certain way.
What is persuasive?
Understanding a word using other words in the text.
What is vocabulary in context/using context clues?
The attitude of the author toward a subject.
What is tone?
Their, there, and they’re are examples of this.
What are homophones?
Your thesis should do these two things.
What is restate the question AND answer it?
True or False: A theme is one word (like “love” or “friendship”).
What is false?
When readers combine text evidence with their thinking.
What is inference?
Words that appeal to the senses (trying to paint a picture).
What is imagery?
Correct this: “She dont like reading.”
What is “She doesn’t like reading.”?
The “E” in TEAR stands for this.
What is evidence?
Which is the better theme statement:
A) Love
B) Love can cause people to make difficult sacrifices
What is B?
The way a text is organized (problem/solution, cause/effect).
What is text structure?
A comparison WITHOUT using “like” or “as.”
What is a metaphor?
A word that shows action in a sentence.
What is a verb?
The “R” in RISE stands for this.
What is restate the thesis?