Author's Purpose
What is Author's Purpose?
The reason WHY an author wrote the story
Name the 6 text structures.
Compare/contrast, description, cause and effect, sequence, chronological order, problem/solution.
What is tone?
The author's attitudes towards what they are writing about. Word choice
What are the three reasons an author writes a story?
Persuade, Inform and Entertain
What are text features?
Pictures, captions, footnotes, graphs, etc. anything added to the text.
What rhetorical appeal is used below?
More than one hundred studies have been conducted over the past decade, and none of them suggests that this is an effective treatment for hair loss.
Logos
Load the laundry into the washing machine and close the door tightly. Make sure not to overload the machine. Next, slide open the detergent drawer, add detergent, and then slide the drawer shut. Select the wash setting (whites or darks), temperature (hot, warm, or cold), and load size (small, medium, or large). Then, press the start button. The washing machine will stop automatically when the wash cycle is complete
What is the author's purpose?
To inform
When a person ingests caffeine, whether in the form of a cup of coffee or tea, a caffeinated soda, or even a piece of dark chocolate, the drug begins to take effect almost immediately. First, caffeine enters the bloodstream through the membranes of the stomach and small intestine. It is then metabolized by the liver, which breaks it down into other chemicals. Within fifteen minutes of consumption, most people begin to feel the effects of caffeine, which can include increased heart rate and feelings of alertness or well-being. Within six hours of consumption, about half of the original dose of the drug will have been eliminated from the body. This is why some people drink a second cup of coffee in the afternoon.
Sequence
Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin were the first men to walk on the surface of the moon, but they were not the last. That was Gene Cernan, the last man to step off the lunar surface. In total there have been twelve men who have walked on the moon, all of whom had done so between 1969 and 1972, which is the most recent non-Michael Jackson moon walking.
What is the main idea?
The passage is about moon walkers.
A pamphlet urging people not to eat animals or use products made from animals or animal suffering because the author thinks that is cruel and unnecessary
Persuade
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) examines published research in order to address the question of how to reduce injuries and deaths in traffic collisions. Based on the research findings, the CDC has concluded that the most effective way to improve safety is to increase seat belt use. The CDC recommends that states more strictly enforce laws that make seat belts a requirement. According to the CDC, these laws are highly effective in increasing seat belt use and saving lives.
What text structure is being used?
Compare and contrast
Which quotation from the passage best develops the central idea of "It can be difficult to study animal intelligence due to their inconsistent behavior."
A. “Animals that are easy to train may also be very intelligent.” (paragraph 9)
B. “When the horse was asked a question, no one in its presence knew the answer.” (paragraph 7)
C. “An animal might breeze through what we consider a difficult learning task and then fail when presented with what seems obvious to us.” (paragraph 13)
D. “There were differences in the calls that were hard for a human researcher to hear.” (paragraph 14)
C.
The Shakespearean tragedy Romeo and Juliet, where two young lovers are forbidden from seeing one another due to a centuries old blood feud between their two families.
What is the author's purpose?
Entertain
How does the text feature: subheadings help your understanding of a story?
It helps me see how the story is organized and gives me a clue about what I am going to read.
They have watered the street,
It shines in the glare of lamps,
Cold, white lamps,
And lies
Like a slow-moving river,
Barred with silver and black.
What is the figurative language?
Simile