Vocabulary
The antonym of hate.
What is admire or love?
A comic strip or fictional book about a magical kingdom.
What is to Entertain?
This is the definition of "theme" in a piece of literature
What is the central message or life lesson of a story?
This part of speech describes a person, place, thing, or idea.
What is a noun?
These are the exact words taken from a text to support a claim, usually enclosed in special punctuation.
What are quotations?
A person who tells the truth and does not lie.
What is Honest/Honorable?
An encyclopedia entry or a news article about a recent event.
What Is to Inform?
Unlike a summary, which tells what happened, a theme must be expressed as one of these.
What is a complete sentence (or universal statement)?
These words, such as quickly or very, modify verbs, adjectives, or other adverbs
What are adverbs?
This term refers to information that is clearly and directly stated in the text.
What is explicit evidence?
An exaggeration not meant to be taken literally.
What is Hyperbole?
A billboard advertisement for a new brand of soda.
What is to Persuade?
This term describes a theme that applies to anyone, anywhere, regardless of culture or time period.
What is a universal theme?
Words like in, on, at, and between that show the relationship between a noun and another part of the sentence.
What are prepositions?
This is an educated conclusion drawn by combining text clues with your own background knowledge.
What is an inference?
To diminish in size means to what.
What is decrease in size, amount, or range?
A "How-To" manual or a recipe for baking a cake.
What is to Inform.
To find the theme, a reader must often do this, as themes are rarely stated directly in the text
What is infer?
This specific type of noun is always capitalized because it names a specific person, place, or thing
What is a proper noun?
This strategy for answering open-ended questions stands for Restate, Answer, Cite, and Explain.
What is the R.A.C.E. strategy?
This 11-letter word means the ability to produce a desired or intended result.
What is Effectiveness?
A travel brochure that uses vivid imagery to help you visualize a tropical beach.
What is to Describe.
This is the primary reason an author includes a theme in their writing.
What is to teach the reader a lesson about life?
This part of speech is used to join words or groups of words, such as and, but, or or
What is a conjunction?
To rewrite a specific passage in your own words while keeping the original meaning.
What is paraphrasing?