Who Said?
What's the Big Idea?
Put up your dukes!
Sing-Song
Very Vivid
100
A writer's position on an issue or problem.
What is a claim?
100
The most important events and ideas.
What is main idea?
100
Writing that expresses a position on an issue or problem.
What is an argument?
100
A type of literature in which words are chosen and arranged in specific ways to create an effect.
What is poetry?
100
A writer uses words according to their dictionary definition.
What is literal language?
200
A piece of information that supports a claim.
What is evidence?
200
Words, phrases, or sentences that tell more about the main idea.
What is supporting details?
200
The author's main point about an issue.
What is claim or proposition?
200
The voice in a poem that talks to the reader.
What is speaker?
200
Four types of figurative language.
What is metaphors, similes, personification, and exaggeration?
300
Statements that can be proved true by checking a source.
What is facts?
300
The passage is mostly about...
What is main idea?
300
The material that proves an author's argument when trying to persuade an audience to accept a claim.
What is support?
300
Unlike prose, in which sentences follow one after another in paragraphs, poetry is divided into groups of lines.
What is stanzas?
300
The raindrops danced and jumped on the window.
What is personification
400
Facts given in number form.
What is statistics?
400
A sentence that indicates the main idea.
What is topic sentence?
400
Evidence and a claim
What is parts of an argument?
400
A language that helps a reader recreate, in his or her mind, what the writer is describing.
What is imagery?
400
The new pillows were like fluffy white marshmallows.
What is simile?
500
Four different types of evidence.
What is facts, statistics, examples, and expert opinions.
500
A way to briefly restate the most important ideas and show they are connected.
What is summary?
500
Consist of facts, emotional appeals, or counterarguments.
What is evidence, or support?
500
One way that poets create vivid imagery.
What is figurative language?
500
Belinda's fingers were icicles after her ice skating lesson.
What is metaphor?
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