Author's Craft
The reason an author writes a text, such as to inform, persuade, or entertain.
What is author's purpose?
What is central idea?
A structure where one event leads to another event.
What is cause and effect?
A word that means the same or almost the same as another word.
What is a synonym?
A group of lines in a poem, similar to a paragraph.
What is a stanza?
When an author uses a short personal story to help explain an idea or make it more interesting.
What is an anecdote?
A message or lesson about life that the reader learns from a story.
What is theme?
In cause and effect, the "cause" is best described as this.
What is why something happens?
A synonym for happy could be this word.
What is joyful? (or similar answers)
A line of poetry that ends with punctuation, like a period or comma.
What is an end-stopped line?
Numbers or data used in a text to support an idea or argument.
What are statistics?
The central idea is usually supported by these.
What are details?
In cause and effect, the "effect" is best described as this.
What is what happens as a result?
Author's use synonyms to avoid doing this too much.
What is repeating the same word?
When a line of poetry continues onto the next line without punctuation.
What is enjambment (or an enjambed line)?
Examples and statistics are mainly used to do this for the reader.
What is support an idea or claim?
Unlike the central idea, this applies to many stories, not just one.
What is theme?
Words like because, so, as a result, and therefore often signal this structure.
What is cause and effect?
Knowing synonyms helps readers better understand this.
What is meaning of words?
Enjambment is often used to create this feeling in a poem.
What is movement or flow?