Author's Purpose
When an author is trying to give you information and teach you facts
What is Inform?
Provides support for the claim. Can include research, interviews, experiments, and facts or figures.
What is evidence?
The meaning or moral of the story. The central or underlying message.
What is theme?
Writing that is mature, professional, and for academic purposes is written in this style
What is formal?
When an author is trying to convince you to do something or try something.
What is Persuade?
Explains why the evidence supports the claim
What is reasoning?
When an animal, object, or idea is given human qualities
What is Personification?
Writing that is immature, casual, and for less serious purposes is written in this style
What is informal?
When the author is trying to get you to enjoy the work by keeping the reader’s attention.
What is Entertain?
A debatable thesis that generates responses from Strongly Disagree to Strongly Agree.
What is a claim?
In a story told from this point of view, the narrator is outside the story and uses pronouns such as he, she, and they.
What is Third-person Point of View?
The following sentence is missing two of these
His best friend who played the saxophone in middle school enjoyed the marching band at the football game.
What are commas?
When an author is trying to express a personal experience to others
What is Share?
An author's prejudice in favor of or against one thing, person or group compared with another, usually in a way considered to be unfair.
What is bias?
Words and phrases that present ordinary things in new and unusual ways, such as similes and metaphors
What is Figurative Language?
The following sentence is missing one comma that should go after this word
The students ran onto the playground which was covered in snow.
What is playground?