Informational texts
The three main purposes of an author's writing
What are persuade, inform, and entertain?
Context clues we can use to determine the meaning of a word.
Hint: IDEAS
What is inference, definition, examples, antonym, and synonym?
"piece of cake"
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idiom
The struggle between what a character wants (their goal) and what prevents them from achieving it (the obstacle)
What is conflict?
Poems are made up of _______ and also are organized into ____________
What are lines and stanzas?
The three rhetorical appeals
What are logos, pathos, and ethos?
These tools are used by writers to make their words more impactful
What are rhetorical devices and figurative language?
The narration and how the story is told. It sets the relationship between the narrator, the reader, and the events of the story.
What is point of view?
The most intense, dramatic, and pivotal moment in a story, acting as the peak of the storyline arc
What is a climax?
"nodded, nearly napping"
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What is alliteration?
The primary point or main message an author wants to convey about a topic
What is central idea?
The four rhetorical devices
What is irony, zeugma, antithesis, and rhetorical questions?
The four main types of point of view
What are first person, second person, third person limited, and third person omniscient?
The narrator's worldview – how they perceive the events, places, and people in the story, which is shaped by their experiences, beliefs, and background.
What is perspective?
The pattern of rhymes at the end of each line of a poem or song
What is rhyme scheme?
The four types of support for central ideas in a text
What are details, quotations, definitions, and facts?
The three types of irony
What is situational, dramatic, and verbal irony?
the use of vivid, descriptive language that appeals to the five senses to create mental images and evoke emotions or experiences for the reader
What is imagery?
Authors use these to develop a character's perspective.
Hint: DAFT
What is dialogue, actions, feelings, and thoughts?
A transition, turn, or pivot where the tone, speaker, topic, or structure changes to add depth, complexity, or a new perspective
What is a shift?
The 6 text structures an author uses to arrange ideas, details, and information within a written work.
“he lost his coat and his temper”
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Zeugma
an original model, prototype, or perfect example upon which others are patterned, symbolizing universal themes in literature, art, and psychology.
What is archetype?
The message, or universal lesson explored in a creative work message, or universal lesson explored in a creative work
What is theme?
A poetic form that contains pairs of consecutive, usually rhyming lines of poetry.
What is a couplet?