Literary Terms
Informational Terms
Rhetorical Devices
Question Types
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The message that the author is trying to send about the topic of the story
What is theme?
100
A statement of fact or of an idea that the author is arguing within an informational text. Usually followed by supporting evidence.
What is a claim?
100
When an author uses the same word or phrase more than once, usually for emphasis.
What is repetition?
100
A question that provides option and only one is correct.
What is multiple choice?
100
The way an author chooses to organize the content of the text.
What is text structure?
200
The way a character changes over the course of the text
Character development
200
The main topic of an informational text.
What is central idea?
200
When an author uses the same sentence structure is a series of sentences to connect those ideas together.
What is parallelism/parallel structure?
200
A question in which options are provided and you are expected to select a specified amount or all options which are correct.
What is multi-select?
200
An overview of only the most important events or elements within a text that simply states what the text was about and does not include any opinions.
What is an objective summary?
300
The ways in which an author takes ideas directly from an original story to create a new one
What is "draws on?"
300
The reason why an author wrote a particular text or what they are trying to accomplish by writing it.
What is author's purpose?
300
When an author compares two unrelated thing for dramatic effect or for the purpose of description.
What is a metaphor?
300
A question in which you are asked to correct the highlighted grammar within a text.
What is an edit task item?
300
The way an author feels about the subject or events that he or she writes about, as evidenced by the word choice.
What is tone?
400
The main topic within a certain work of art, textual or otherwise
What is key scene?
400
A document of historical or literary significance that is important to US history; usually has similar themes such as freedom or justice.
What is a seminal US document?
400
When an author asks something without expecting an answer in order to make a point.
What is a rhetorical question?
400
A question in which you are given options and asked to move them to the correct place.
What is a drag-and-drop question?
400
This type of question regarding a passage set asks what one text focuses on or includes that the other does not.
What is emphasized in one text that is absent from the other?
500
The way in which an author changes certain elements of an original story in order to create a new version.
What is "transforms?"
500
Incorrect arguments due to flaws in logic that could be intentional or accidental.
What is fallacious reasoning?
500
The writing strategies an author uses to make an argument or to advance their purpose.
What is rhetoric?
500
A question in which you are asked to select phrases directly from the provided excerpt.
What is a selectable text?
500
Various ways of portraying content, which can include written text, visual artwork, or videos.
What are media/mediums/works?
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