Reading Literary Text
This is the message or lesson a reader learns from a story
What is theme?
This is the main reason an author writes a nonfiction article.
What is the author’s purpose?
This type of NJSLA writing task asks you to finish a story with vivid (sensory) details and a logical ending.
What is the Narrative Writing Task (NWT)?
The final sentence of the introduction that clearly states your main argument or position is called this.
What is a thesis statement?
A complete sentence with one independent clause and one dependent clause is called this.
What is a complex sentence?
A reader makes this when using clues to figure out something the author doesn’t directly say. To reach a conclusion.
What is an inference?
You must use this kind of evidence to support your answer.
What is textual evidence?
In this task, you read three texts (including one visual) and use them to write an essay.
What is the Research Simulation Task (RST)
This is the format of a well-organized body paragraph.
What are the topic sentence, citation, explanation, and summary?
This punctuation is used before a coordinating conjunction in a compound sentence.
What is a comma?
A story told in 1st person will have this kind of narrator.
What is a character in the story?
When a writer shows why one thing leads to another, they are using this text structure.
What is cause and effect?
The LAT (Literary Analysis Task) asks students to compare what?
What are two literary texts?
In an RST, you must use information from ___ sources.
What are three texts (two written, one visual)?
Using a dictionary or context clues helps you do this with unknown words.
What is determine meaning?
The sequence of events and how they’re structured in a story is called this.
What is plot?
These signal words or phrases help a reader track how ideas relate (like “however” or “in addition”).
What are transitions?
This is the type of opening statement that grabs the reader's attention at the beginning of an essay.
What is a hook?
The best way to organize your body paragraphs in an essay comparing texts.
What is by the reasons included in the thesis statement?
This type of figurative language compares two unlike things using the words “like” or “as.”
What is a simile?
This is how an author reveals what a character is like through their speech, thoughts, actions, and effects on others.
What is indirect characterization?
This is the most important point the author makes in a section or the whole text.
What is the main idea?
This information goes in the introduction, providing the reader understanding of the context before diving into the main argument.
What is the title, author, and a brief summary of the texts?
A good conclusion in a LAT or RST does this.
What is restates the thesis and wraps up ideas?
This poetic device involves the repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words, often used to create rhythm or emphasis.
What is alliteration?