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What are the 3 main types of purpose?
What items support the main idea?
Supporting details.
How does tone help the reader identify the author's purpose?
The tone helps find the author's purpose by showing the author's attitude toward the subject.
What type of purpose is shown in an advertisement?
Persuasive.
What is tone?
The general feeling or attitude of a text.
How do you identify supporting details?
By finding the main idea and identifying information that backs it up.
What is the importance of a supporting detail?
It helps explain and back up the main idea.
What type of purpose is made to engage the reader through enjoyment and humor?
Entertainment.
What is the Main Idea of a novel?
The central theme of a passage that ties together all the supporting details in a novel.
What is the process of finding the main idea and the purpose?
Finding the most important message and figuring out why the author chose it.
How does the main idea tie together supporting details?
The main idea provides a clear focus for the text, and the supporting details help to elaborate, explain, or prove that central concept.
What type of purpose is shown in an unbiased article about atoms?
Informative.
What is a supporting detail?
Facts, examples, or descriptions that back up the main idea.
What are the 2 main ways the author expresses the main idea?
Directly stating it and implying it in the text.
How do you find tone?
By analyzing the word choice and the sentence structure.
What type of purpose do salesmen use?
Persuasion.
What is the author's purpose?
The author's purpose is the reason an author writes a text, whether to inform, entertain, persuade, or express personal feelings or ideas.
What is the main indicator of the author's purpose?
Tone.
What is the importance of purpose?
The purpose of a text shapes its tone, structure, and content. Understanding the purpose can help readers better interpret the message.
What is an informative text?
A type of text written to explain, describe, or give information about a specific topic.