Arguments
Comparing and Contrasting Texts
Comparing and Contrasting Texts II
Word Meanings
Ogel's Tear
100
an author's position about a topic
What is an argument?
100
this is a category of literature (ex.: fantasy, adventure)
What is genre?
100
in order to compare and contrast any texts, you have to find these two things
What are similarities and differences?
100
this person tells the story
What is narrator?
100
the main characters in Ogel's Tear
Who are Kate, Eli, and Juan?
200
these statements support the author's position about a topic
What are claims?
200
this is a true account of a person's life written by that person
What is autobiography?
200
to compare informational texts, you should look for this, or the reason why an author wrote it
What is author's purpose?
200
Robin Hood is often described as fair and ____.
What is just?
200
the comic book that the trio loves so much
What is Gilda the Great?
300
True/False: The best chart/thinking map to use to evaluate an argument is the Venn diagram.
What is false?
300
the word part "bio" means _____
What is life?
300
to compare literary texts, you should look for this, or the message
What is theme?
300
female crabs spawn, or do this in the water
What is deposit their eggs?
300
these adjectives are used to describe Ogel
What is lost and/or scared?
400
evaluating arguments requires you to _____ the validity; this is also an official appointed in a court of law
What is judge?
400
this is an account of a person's life written by another person
What is biography?
400
in literary texts, we look at tone, which is determined by this or the positive, negative, or neutral feeling that certain words give
What is connotation?
400
define enable
What is to let or to allow?
400
the genre of this short story
What is fantasy?
500
the author's purpose for arguments would be this letter in author's purpose PIE
What is P (persuade)?
500
the word part "auto" means _____
What is self?
500
this refers to the different perspectives narrators/speakers have in a text. look at the personal pronouns to figure it out!
What is point of view?
500
these animals are domesticated.
What are pets?
500
"We must join forces to vanquish Ogel!"; what Gilda wants to trio to do to Ogel
What is defeat him?
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