Fictional Terms
The speed of a story
What is pace?
The main idea of an article.
What is central idea?
What is a theme of the passage?
What is the story's message?
Highlight
What is emphasize?
The first item sold on eBay was a broken laser pointer it sold for $14.
The punctuation needed after the word "pointer".
What is a semicolon?
The reason for doing something.
What is motivation?
The way an author organizes the ideas of a passage.
What is structure?
What impact does the word apprehensive have in paragraph 14?
What is the effect of using that word?
Change
What is affect?
Since iguanas are accustomed to high temperatures pet iguanas must be provided with a heated lamp or rock at all times.
The punctuation needed after the word "temperatures".
What is a comma?
When an item or object is standing for something else.
What is symbolize?
How the author is trying to prove his or her point.
What is advance the argument?
Select two ways that the interactions with other characters support the development of the narrator’s decision at the end of the story.
How do other characters influence the main character's choices?
Cause and effect (in a story)
What is advance the plot?
I enjoy fishing, hunting, and to travel.
How to change this sentence to make it parallel.
What is "traveling"?
A feeling the audience has when something might happen in the story.
What is tension?
How the author adds details to make his or her idea clear
What is refine?
Which two statements help to advance the president’s argument that community college should be free to all Americans?
How do those sentences support his claim?
Suspense
Tension
Dad watches a TV show about a new subject cooking wild game.
The punctuation needed after the word "subject".
What is a colon?
When something happens in the story that leads to something else happening.
What is advance the plot?
The way an author writes to try to persuade the audience.
What is rhetoric?
How does the president use this rhetoric to advance his purpose?
How does the way it is written add support to his claim?
What is theme?
It was obvious he would not win the watermelon eating contest when he was given a monsterous melon that was clearly meant for one person to eat.
The correct spelling of "monsterous".
What is monstrous?