Author's Purpose
This purpose aims to provide facts without the author's opinion.
What is inform?
What is thesis/claim?
A text that shows the similarities and differences between basketball and football is this type of structure.
What is compare and contrast?
This device, which can be happy or sad (among many other words), influences how readers interpret the message, can persuade, criticize, encourage, or warn, and helps the author connect emotionally or intellectually with the reader.
What is tone?
This is the moral or the lesson of the story.
What is theme?
An author uses strong opinions and arguments when writing with this purpose.
What is persuade?
This is needed in every body paragraph and are citations pulled directly from the text to support an argument.
What is evidence?
What is chronological?
This device, which can be first, second or third person, shapes how information is presented and helps express bias or subjectivity in a text.
What is point of view?
These are at least two strategies you can use to annotate a text as you are reading it.
When an author wants the reader to enjoy a story, this is the purpose.
What is entertain?
This should be at least three sentences long in each body paragraphs and explains the evidence in a paragraph and how it furthers the argument.
What is reasoning?
A text that explains what factors lead to increased sickness in patience is this type of text structure.
What is cause and effect?
This device, which includes examples like personification or metaphors, makes ideas more vivid or memorable, helps readers understand abstract concepts, and creates deeper meaning.
What is figurative language?
This rhetorical appeal persuades the reader by appealing to their emotion, usually igniting strong emotions like fear or anger.
What is pathos?
The author's purpose in a heartwarming story about a man named Fisher and his dog as they seek to adapt to living together
What is entertain?
Properly cited evidence requires these three things.
A text that addresses homelessness and how members of the community can contribute various resources is this type of text structure.
What is problem and solution?
This device, which includes appealing to all of our sense, helps readers visualize ideas, makes arguments more memorable, and creates emotional impact.
What is imagery?
What is stormy?
The author's purpose in a newspaper ad where a candidate is telling you the reason you should vote for her.
What is persuade?
An average essay should be the following length in words.
What is 450-600 words?
A text that gives characteristics of life during Ancient Rome is this type of text structure.
What is description?
This device, which includes anything an author says, shapes the reader’s emotional reaction, establishes the author’s voice, and clarifies or complicates meaning.
What is word choice?
What is situational irony?