Unit 1 - Fiction
A hint in the surrounding text that can help a reader infer the meaning of an unfamiliar word
What is a Context Clue?
The basic unit of a poem made up of a series of lines
What is a stanza?
Elements used to help the reader find information quicker
What is a Text Feature?
The main idea of the argument that the writer is attempting to prove
What is Claim?
A writing about invented people, places, and events
What is fiction?
A question or comment about a text written directly on the text
What is an annotation?
The repetition of the same or similar sounds in a poem
What is rhyme?
A reason for writing such as to entertain, inform, or persuade
What is Author's Purpose?
The emotional quality or atmosphere of a story or poem
What is Mood?
A literary work usually set in the future when a scientific advancement has changed human lives
What is Science Fiction?
To ask and answer questions before, during, and after reading a text
What is generate questions?
The contrast between what is said and what is meant or expected and what actually happens
What is Irony?
To state the main ideas or events and the most important details in the text
What is Summarize?
A strong belief about what is important or acceptable
What is Value?
A literary work in which the central plot consists of one or more characters solving a crime
What is mysteries?
When something is stated directly in the text
What is explicit?
An idea formed by combining text evidence and one's own reasoning and prior knowledge
What is an Inference?
The subject of a literary work, usually stated as a single word or phrase
What is Topic?
A visual element such as a photograph, drawing, map, chart, etc
What is Graphic Feature?
A literary work usually set in an imaginary world and may include mythical beings and/or magic
What is fantasy?
To examine the parts of something in detail
What is analyze?
The standpoint or perspective from which a story is told
What is Point of View?
To restate the author's words in your own words
What is Paraphrase?
The part of an argument that states the counterclaim and then attempts to explain the errors with that claim
What is Rebuttal?
A literary work with factual events, characters, or settings from the past and includes fictional elements
What is Historical Fiction?