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100

This is the main problem in a story

What is the conflict?

100

The most likely structure (organization) of a text that contains the word "challenge"?

What is problem/solution?

100
This is a comparison that uses like or as
What is a simile?
100
This is the term to describe your topic or research question if it is too big and will be difficult to adequately report on.
What is broad?
100

This is an author's attitude about their topic.

What is author's point of view

200

This is the message of a story, worded as a simple, general statement about life

What is the theme

200

This is the main thing that the author is arguing for, in other words, the change they want to see happen.

What is the claim?

200
This is when a non living thing is given human qualities.
What is personification?
200
This is the term for when you do not cite the source you either quoted, copied without quoting or paraphrased.
What is plagiarism?
200

This is the feeling that a word carries. It can be positive, negative or neutral.

What is the connotation?

300

This is the point of view where the narrator is a character in the story e.g. "I was 7 years old. It was the first day of school...."

What is first person?

300

What is a strategy for figuring out an unknown word in a text?

What is think about part of speech, think of a synonym that could replace it, think about any Greek and Latin Roots?

300
This is when a writer exaggerates something greatly.
What is hyperbole?
300

This is when you take what is written in a text and put it into your own words. You still have to cite your source if doing this in an essay.

What is paraphrase?

300

This is the feeling an author tries to set with their word choice.

What is tone

400
This is the point of view where the narrator is not a character in the story and can see into the actions and thoughts of multiple characters
What is third person omniscient?
400

This is a text structure that would use words like, "however" and "conversely"

What is compare/contrast

400
This is when you have the repeating sound at the beginning of a set of words.
What is alliteration?
400

How could you tell a source is not credible?

All of the above are clues: Missing copyright info, no sources cited, informal language/grammatical errors, bias, author doesn't have good credentials, its Wikipedia, domain suffix is not .edu, org, .gov
400

This is the feeling you get (as a reader) when you read a passage. It comes from the words the author uses, what is happening etc. 

What is mood?

500

This is another term that is sometimes used on tests to refer to theme

What is central idea?

500

This is the text structure that would use phrases like "due to" and "consequently"

What is cause and effect

500
This is when an author references something well known e.g. "He looked like Moses"
What is an allusion?
500

How you know if a source is relevant or not relevant. 

What is, It is relevant if it answers your research question/proves your thesis

500

Where does a thesis statement go in an essay

What is the last sentence of the intro paragraph?