Author's Purpose
What is P.I.E?
Persuade/Inform/Entertain
What is text evidence?
Something from the text that supports your answer
What is an independent clause?
A clause that can stand on its own with a subject and a predicate.
What is a Text to Text connection?
How a piece of writing connects to another piece of writing
What is the main idea of a text?
What the text is mainly about
Define author's purpose
Author's purpose is why they wrote the text.
What is tone?
How the AUTHOR feels about the text
What is a dependent clause?
A clause that can not stand on its own with subject, predicate, and subordinating conjunction.
What is a Text to Self connection?
How you relate to a piece of writing
What is theme?
A general message or lesson we learn from a text
What does P.A.S.T. stand for?
Purpose, Audience, Speaker, and Text
What is characterization?
How an author describes characters in order to make them come to life.
What is a word that sounds the same but is spelled differently and has a different meaning?
Homophone
What is a Text to Society connection?
How a piece of writing connects to society or the world
What was the theme of The Invisible Boy?
Be kind to others and include others.
The author writes a text about pollution and urges people to clean up after themselves...what is the author's purpose?
The author's purpose is to persuade people to clean up after themselves.
What is a summary?
A paragraph that shortens the content of a text and keeps key details and the author's purpose.
What are FANBOYS and what does it stand for?
Coordinating Conjunction
For, And, Nor, But, Or, Yet, So
A person relates to a character in a book. What type of connection is that?
Text to Self
The author writes a story about a turtle that goes on a journey to find friends...what is the main idea?
Friendship is important
The author writes a text about a girl who fails to get on the soccer team and works hard over the summer to make a team with her friends. What is the author's purpose?
The author's purpose is to teach the audience about perseverance and never giving up.
What are all 5 parts of plot?
Exposition, Rising Action, Climax, Falling Action, and Resolution
What are these called?
Because, while, until, although, since, before, after, etc.
Subordinating Conjunctions
A poem is speaking about pollution. What type of connection is that?
Text to Society or Text to World
The author writes a story about a man who lies all the time and ends up alone...what is the theme?
Lying leads to loneliness