Paraphrase/Summary
Which sentence best expresses the central idea of paragraph 6?
A) Stories in the horror genre express a wide variety of themes.
B) Certain themes are common to many stories in the horror genre.
C) The horror concentrates on the conflict between good and evil.
What is the author's purpose?
The author's purpose is the author's reason for writing.
What is an inference?
An inference is making an educated guess based on previous knowledge and evidence from a text.
Read the sentence from paragraph 3.
Our advance knowledge creates suspense because we can anticipate what us going to happen.
Which of the following is the best paraphrase of this sentence?
A) The suspense is created when we know that the characters will be surprised.
B) Using what we know and making predictions based on the circumstances creates suspense.
C)Knowing the plot and thinking about the characters promotes suspense.
Read the sentence from a student's analysis of "What Is the Horror Genre?"
Sharon A. Russell explains what the horror genre is and how it develop and change over time.
Which of the following revisions changes the underlined phrase so that it correctly uses the past tense?
A) develops and changed
B) developed and changed
C) develops and changes
D) developed and changes
What are supporting details?
Supporting details are information that explains, proves, or clarifies the main idea of a piece of writing
Reread the first two paragraphs of the essay. What does the opening suggest about the author's purpose in writing the essay?
The author's purpose for writing the essay is to define the horror genre.
Create a summary of the selection by labeling the ideas in the order in which they are presented in the text. The first idea will be labeled 1, and the last idea will be labeled 4.
_ Horror stories can cause the audience to focus more on suspense than on the characters.
_Horror stories often cause the audience to question whether obtaining new knowledge is necessarily a good thing
_Horror stories have many characteristics, one of which is structure, or the flow of events in a story.
_The feeling of fear from horror stories can come from believing that the stories could be real.
Which two details support the author's central idea that horror can be categorized by the source of the horror?
A) Dr. Frankensein's need for knoweledge turns him into the kind of person who creates a monster. (paragraph 5)
B) We are not surprised to find old houses, abandoned castles, dump cellars, or dark forests as important elements in the horror story. (paragraph 3)
C) The vampire attacks the victim, but then the victim becomes a vampire and attacks others. (paragraph 5)
The author's main purpose for writing this article was to-
A) provide information about popular horror stories from a long time ago
B) persuade people to become fans of stories in the horror genre
C) encourage people to analyze horror plots and how they are created
How do you make an inference?
Take what I already know and the author's words and make a logical guess.
Read the sentence from paragraph 1.
The minute we would start to make such a list we would also realize that not all monsters are alike and that not all horror deals with monsters.
Which paraphrase of this sentence is correctly written?
A) Quickly we would realize from our list, that not all monsters are alike and not all horror deals with monsters.
B) If we made a list, we would realize that not all monsters are alike and not all horror deals with monsters.
One central idea of the selection is that horror-
A) is not limited to stories that are about monsters
B) is not as complicated as other kind of literature
C) is more enjoyable than other genres if fiction
Read the sentence and change the verb tense to past tense by adding -d or -ed.
The main character (stop) for gas in a small town.
stopped
The author writes " parallel worlds us to accept those worlds without question".
What supporting details does she provide to support this statement?
"We just believe Dorothy is in Oz; we accept Oz as a parallel world separate from ours."
According to the author, what are the limitations of defending horror by its focus on monsters?
Some horror stories do not have monsters at all.
What is another way to say (phrase) "make an inference"?
Read between the lines.
Read the sentences from paragraph 5 in the selection.
An outside force may invade the character and then force the evil out again. The vampire attacks the victim, but then the victim becomes a vampire and attacks others.
A) A force outside the character enters, pushing out the evil. The victim is attacked by the vampire, resulting in the victim changing into a vampire and seeking other victims.
B) The first thing is, an outside force gets into the character. The next thing is, the force leaves the character. Finally, the vampire attacks the character and becomes the vampire.
What is the central idea of paragraph 2?
A) Scary stories are fun because the characters are in a world unlike the one we live in.
B) Readers identify the setting in the story by recalling scenes from popular horror stories.
C) Suspense is created by setting up scenes in which readers know bad things can take place.
To define a genre, to catagorize works of literature, to examine the structure of a work of literature, and to analyze an author's technique are all what?
Categories of author's purpose.
True or false: When answering inference questions, you must fill in the information the author has left out.
true