This refers to important information that is left out of or missing from a piece of writing.
What is a gap?
100
"What is the main character's name" is an example of this type of question.
What is literal?
100
When writing a summary, it is important to pick out and focus on these.
What are main ideas/key points?
100
Bravery/courage is the theme of this story read in class.
What is "Sir Gawain and The Green Knight"?
100
All writing should contain these three parts.
What is a beginning, middle, and end?
200
This occurs when information in a piece of writing is stated incorrectly or when two opposing views are expressed.
What is a contradiction?
200
This is a type of question that requires one to judge or place value on a piece of writing or an important aspect of that writing (i.e. a character's actions, the effectiveness of a summary, etc.).
What is an evaluative question?
200
A summary may need to contain a few of these to reinforce or back up a main idea.
What are supporting details?
200
In the short story, "Charles", Laurie is a student in this grade.
What is kindergarten?
200
This refers to the underlying meaning of a story.
What is the theme?
300
This is a brief retelling of piece of writing made up mostly of main ideas with a few important supporting details.
What is a summary?
300
The answer to this type of question can be found directly in the text.
What is a literal question?
300
The following is an example of information that would likely be found in a well-written summary.
What is
(Answers will vary...teacher is the judge)
300
In the short story, "The Cask of Amontillado", the narrator leads Fortunato to his death here.
Where are the catacomes?
300
These three items should be present in a well-written INTRODUCTION paragraph.
What are a hook, a thesis statement, and a brief statement of main points?
400
This is an educated guess based on clues from a text.
What is inference?
400
This type of question requires one to use clues from a story to create a prediction or form an opinion.
What is an inferential question?
400
When you write a summary, make sure all of your information is accurate. If anything is incorrect, you will have one of these.
What is a contradiction?
400
In the short story, "The Tell Tale Heart", the narrator killed his victim for this reason.
What was his unsightly eye?
400
This is a common theme in much of Edgar Allen Poe's writing.
What is death?
500
This occurs when one makes a guess about what will happen next in a story if the guess is not based on any important information from the text.
What is a prediction?
500
Asking a reader to draw conclusions based on two or more pieces of literature is an example of this type of question.
What is synthesis?
500
This is an example of information that would most likely not be included in a summary.
What is
(Answers will vary...teacher is the judge)
500
In the Poem, "Anabelle Lee", Poe tells of the death of this important person in his life.
Who is his wife?
500
These are the six most important traits of effective writing.
What are ideas, word choice, sentence fluency, organization, conventions, and voice?