Text Structure
Text Features
Signal Words
Graphics
Theme
100
to draw a conclusion based on given facts and information; the answer is not "right there". The reader must use context clues to decide.
What is Infer
100
used to make the words stand out on a page
What is color text
100
Also known and chronological order chronological, steps and stages, narration or sequence of events.
What is Time Order
100
Photos, graphs, charts, diagrams, and maps
What is Visual
100
the opposite of hyperbole. It Is a kind of irony that deliberately represents something as being much less that it really is. Ex. "I think I can manage to survive on a salary of 2 million a year".
What is Understatement
200
the sentence that includes the main idea; it is usually found in the first sentence of the paragraph.
What is Topic Sentence
200
a box that has additional information about a topic that is written about in the text
What is Textbox
200
Commonly used in history, art history, the social sciences and political science.
What is enumeration
200
a chart feature that identifies the items that the pieces, columns, bars, or lines in the chart represent
What is legend
200
a way of saying one thing but meaning another. Ex. Simile & metaphor : She runs like the wind( personification)
What is Figurative language
300
the most important idea or event in a passage or paragraph.
What is Main Idea
300
printed so that words and phrases stand out on a page, often used for titles and headings
What is Bold print
300
Gangs and fraternities share many characteristics, but are quite different.
What is Comparison and/or Contrast
300
DAILY DOUBLE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! an image used to compare different groups of data to each other through the use of columns of different lengths
What is column chart
300
a figure of speech that uses exaggeration to express strong emotion or create a comic effect. It is a deliberate, extravagant, and often outrageous exaggeration. Ex. It has to be 200 degrees in here.
What is Hyperbole
400
is described and proposed or explained
What is Problem and Solution
400
a printed note or definition placed below the text at the bottom of the page
What is footnote
400
Smoking is the single most preventable risk factor for fatal illnesses in the United States.Indeed,cigarette smoking accounts for more deaths than all other drugs, car accidents, suicides, homicides, and fires combined. Further, nonsmokers who inhale smoke from other people’s cigarettes face an elevated face an elevated risk for lung cancer and other illnesses related to the lungs, a fact that has given rise to a nonsmokers’ rights movement in the United States.
What is Cause and effect
400
positioned with the long edge ( of an image or page ) at the top
What is landscape orientation
400
point from which the writer tells the story.
What is Point of view
500
information in the passage that describes things by listing its features, characteristics, or by giving examples.
What is Description
500
identify a picture or a picture graph and/or its parts
What is labels
500
Both patterns organize points in time, but for different reasons.
What is Time order and Process
500
an image that shows the relationships of employees, positions, and departments
What is organization chart
500
the general truth about human nature, love, courage, etc. It is a universal concept that speaks to human experience. It is the point of the story. The theme is the observation recognizing that there are general truths about human nature.
What is Theme
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