Author's Perspective
Positive or Negative Connotation
Figurative Language
Text Structure
Greek/Latin Roots
100

A particular attitude or way of regarding something. 

What is Perspective?

100

Awesome

What is a positive connotation 

100

Peter Piper picked peppers.

What is alliteration?

100

A story about panthers is organized into four sections, each section describing a different characteristic of a panther.

What is Description?

100

Auto-

What is self?

200

Someone or something that people talk or write about (what the text is about) 

What is a Topic

200

Courageous

What is a Positive Connotation?

200

This backpack weighs a ton.

What is a Hyperbole?

200

An author addresses the diminishing panther population by explaining the reasons for the decline, and offering suggestions for improving the species’ survival rate.

What is Problem and Solution?

200

Chron-

What is time?

300

To find the author’s perspective, pay attention to the...

What is Word Choice?

300

Ordinary

What is a Negative Connotation 

300

Break a leg!

What is an Idiom?

300

An author addresses the diminishing panther population by explaining the reasons for the decline, and offering suggestions for improving the species’ survival rate.

What is Chronological?

300

aqua-

What is water?

400

The account, which may include the author’s feelings, beliefs, and opinions

What is first-hand account?

400

Dreaded

What is a Negative Connotation?

400

They have a heart of gold.

What is a Metaphor?

400

An author explains how to distinguish a panther from a bobcat by providing characteristics shared by each, and emphasizing their distinctive features.

What is Compare and Contrast?

400

bio-

What is life?

500

This account is usually objective, based on the facts, and do not include the author’s perspective. 

What is a Second-hand account?

500

“The shadows and the sky above were as black as the blackest velvet I had ever seen. I exclaimed: magnificent desolation!”

What s a Positive Connotation?

500

The cupcake is calling my name.

What is Personification?

500

An article explains the effects of increasing construction on the habitats of endangered species.

What is Cause and Effect?

500

Spect- 

What is to look?

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