Text Structure
Vocabulary
Poetry
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Compare and Contrast
Finding the similarities and differences between two people, things, or ideas.
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The central message, moral of the story, life-lesson
What is the "Theme" of a story?
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A group of lines in a poem
What is a stanza?
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The emotions and feelings the reader feels from the story
What is mood?
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Persuade Inform Entertain PIE... Yummy!
What are the 3 different types of Author's Purpose we learned?
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Solution(s)
The author gives a problem and offers one or more __________________.
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1. Clues in the text 2. Background knowledge
what two things to you use to infer?
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TP-FASTT
What acronym do we use to help us with poems?
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The way an author expresses his attitude through his writing. Though the author's P.O.V, writing formality, words, imagery, style
What is tone?
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Rule of 3- Writing strategy that suggests when things come in 3's it is naturally funnier, satisfying, and more effective than other numbers. EX. The Three Little Pigs Magic Helper- A character who possesses an extraordinary power that often assists the hero. Ex. Tinkerbell
What is the Rule of 3? Give an example also What is a Magic Helper? Give an example also
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Chronological
In order by time
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Show, communicate, to make an idea known...
What does the word "convey" mean? Ex. The poet mentions ____________ at the beginning of the poem to convey-?
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- It is important -Character's thoughts - Figurative language (onomatopoeia) - Change the way you are supposed to read the line -Etc.
What are some reasons to why an author might italicize certain lines in a poem?
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The narrator is a character in the story. I, me, we, us, etc.
What is 1st-person narration? Clue words?
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Reasons and Evidence
What is an Argument? A carefully stated claim supported by _______________ and ________________.
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Cause and Effect
Describes an event and the event(s) that follow
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To arrive at a judgement or conclusion by reasoning
What does the word "conclude" mean? Ex. From the information provided in the passage, the reader can conclude that-
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P- Paraphrase A- Attitude
What does the P and A stand for in TP-FASTT
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The narrator is outside of the story. He, she, them, they, her, him, Bob, Sue, etc.
What is 3rd-person narration? Clue words?
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You do not read them out loud. The directions tells the characters what to do such as: what props to use, how to display emotions, where to stand, what the set looks like, etc.
What are stage directions? How are they read differently than other parts of the play script?
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Sequence
Information is organized in steps or a process.
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Summarize- Briefly restating what happened in a paragraph or story by giving the main points and most important details
What does it mean to "Summarize"
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F- Figurative Language S- Shift
What does the F and S stand for in TP-FASTT
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Max
Who was the narrator in "Freak the Mighty"?
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1. Billboard, speech, commercial, etc. 2. Textbooks, non-fiction, articles, newspaper, essays, directions, etc. 3. Fiction, narratives, plays, songs, joke books, etc.
1. Where might you see an example of a persuasion? 2. What kinds of texts are informational texts? 3. What kinds of texts are meant for entertainment?
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