INFERENCES & CONCLUSIONS
This is an educated guess based on facts from the text.
What is a conclusion?
Writing that convinces the reader to agree with your position is this.
Persuasive Writing
The way in which a text is structured is its ______.
What is organizational pattern?
Similes are comparisons that use _____ or _____.
What is "Like" or "As"?
This is a guess based on personal knowledge PLUS what is in the text.
What is an inference?
Often times in persuasive writing the author must take this.
What is a position?
The organizational pattern in which an issue is described at the beginning that is fixed in the end is known as _________.
What is problem and solution?
Which of these is not a simile?
They are stuck like glue.
She is tired as a horse.
She is a mouse.
He is sharp as a nail.
What is "She is a mouse?"
When making inferences and conclusions, you use these two types of evidence.
What is explicit and implicit?
When writing persuasively your information needs to be this.
What is based on facts?
The organizational pattern in which the author describes an event and then the consequences of that event is known as _____.
What is cause and effect?
What is a simile used for?
What is to compare different things?
This type of evidence is directly stated.
What is explicit evidence?
When writing persuasively, you must back up your argument with these.
What are reasons or examples?
The organizational pattern in which the entire text lists the similarities and differences between two characters, settings, and/or events is known as ______.
What is compare and contrast?
Similes can often involve this plus a noun.
Ex: revolving like a carousel
What is a verb?
This type of evidence is not directly stated and requires you to use your own knowledge.
What is implicit evidence?
Persuasive writing can have the purpose of convincing the reader to do this.
What is take action?
The organizational pattern in which the author tells the story using words to indicate a specific chronological order or procedural steps is _______.
What is sequence and order?
Similes are a form of this.
What are idioms?