Vocab Skillz
What's The Purpose?
Jumping 2 Conclusions
Non Fiction Variety
Elementz
100
Words that have similar meaning.
What is synonym?
100
The author's purpose in a step-by-step instruction guide.
What is to teach?
100
A judgement made by reading between the lines than through a direct statement.
What is inference?
100
A narrative nonfiction about a person's life.
What is biography?
100
They are just as interesting in a biography as they would be in a narrative.
What are characters?
200
Words that have opposite meaning.
What is antonym?
200
The author's purpose to see the writer's point of view.
What is to persuade?
200
Broad statement about topic/person drawn from specific information about topic or person.
What is generalization?
200
Piece of writing intended to convince reader to see the writer's point of view?
What is a persuasive essay?
200
The two characters that are included in anything you read.
What are the narrator/speaker & you?
300
How you would find the meaning of an unknown word in a sentence.
What is context clues?
300
The author's purpose in a news story.
What is to inform?
300
Must have BOTH of these to make generalizations about what the author means.
What is inferences and conclusions?
300
A set of directions or guide to perform a specific task.
What is a functional document?
300
This has its PLACE in non fiction just as much as a narrative, though sometimes it's not as obvious.
What is setting?
400
The dictionary definition of a word.
What is denotation?
400
The author's purpose in a journal entry?
What is to describe?
400
A reader learns to combine prior knowledge with info author is telling you to make this.
What is inferences?
400
Piece of writing about one's own life.
What is an autobiography?
400
The message or main idea in a piece of writing.
What is theme?
500
Gives feeling and emotion with a word.
What is connotation?
500
The author's purpose in an advertisement?
What is to persuade?
500
To put pieces of information together.
What is to draw conclusions?
500
Uses literary elements like character and setting to report on actual persons/places/events.
What is literary non fiction?
500
Some non fiction texts make rare use of this point of view.
What is 2nd person?
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