Context & Meaning
When a author uses he, she, or they in a story, the point of view is.
What is 3rd person?
The text is structured where it discusses similarities and differences of a topic.
What is Compare and Contrast?
How fast or slow the story moves.
What is plot pacing?
This word means “to make something clear or easy to understand,” as in: The teacher clarified the directions.
What is clarify?
They provide evidence and explanation to support the main idea.
What are details?
The author uses Author PIE to have a purpose of why they are writing the text.
What is the Persuade, Inform, and Entertain?
This type of text structure uses the words, first, then, now, and finally.
What is Sequence & Order?
This part of the the plot, introduces the setting, characters, and the problem of the story.
What is Exposition?
A word with a similar or same meaning
What is a synonym?
Copying, using someone else work and saying that is yours.
What is plagiarism?
It helps readers understand why the text was written.
What is the authors purpose?
A group of lines in a poem.
What is a stanza?
It is the opposing view of the claim.
What is Counterclaim?
The prefix “un-” in the word unhappy changes the meaning of the word in what way?
What does not happy mean?
A place where you get your information to support your analysis.
What is a source?
The author provides information like history, facts, & prior information in the beginning of the text for the reader to get an understanding of the topic.
What is background information?
The text uses text structure words like disadvantage and answer.
What is Problem & Solution?
The author used this technique to relay this message in the passage "Slow and Steady wins the race!"
What is Theme?
Rewrite this sentence so it is grammatically correct:
Me and him went to the store.
What is He and I went to the store?
These punctuation marks are used when you are quoting or paraphrasing texts.
What are quotation marks?
The author includes different viewpoint to create a different meaning.
What is multiple perspectives?
The way the author writes, including word choice.
What is the authors style?
This paragraph in an argumentative essay includes a topic sentence, evidence, reasoning.
What is a body paragraph?
This figure of speech compares two things using “like” or “as,” such as: as brave as a lion.
What is a simile?
You must do this to look up information on a topic you are writing about.
What is research?