Literary Text
This term refers to the lesson or central idea that a story conveys, such as when a character sacrifices something important to help another.
What is theme?
This type of writing presents facts, explanations, or ideas about real-world topics rather than telling a story or narrative.
What is informational text?
This is the statement an author wants the audience to accept, usually found at the end of the introduction and guides the entire argument.
What is a claim?
When all parts of an essay—introduction, body paragraphs, counterclaim, and conclusion—work together to support the claim.
What is organization or structure?
This sentence includes an error that affects a proper noun and should be corrected: “we traveled to san antonio, texas last summer.”
What is capitalization?
This literary skill asks you to explain how a character’s personality traits, like stubbornness or bravery, influence the events of the story.
What is characterization?
Visual tools such as tables, charts, graphs, or diagrams are used in informational texts to clarify complex ideas. This is called what?
What is graphic aid?
Persuasive language that appeals to emotions, values, or beliefs to influence the audience is called this.
What is an emotional appeal or pathos?
This statement, usually found at the end of the introduction, tells the reader exactly what the essay will argue or explain.
What is a thesis statement?
This sentence is missing appropriate punctuation, which affects its clarity and completeness: “The students completed the assignment on time”
What is a period at the end?
Using a character’s secretive actions to draw conclusions about their motives or personality demonstrates this skill.
What is making an inference?
This reading strategy involves identifying the main idea and most important details to condense the information while keeping the meaning intact.
What is summarizing?
Writers use facts, statistics, expert opinions, or real-world examples to support their claims.
What is evidence or reasons?
If a paragraph includes a claim but no support from the text or facts, it is missing this important element.
What is evidence?
After finishing your essay, this step is important to check for spelling, punctuation, and grammar errors before submitting your work.
What is proofreading?
This is the struggle a character faces, which can be with another character, society, nature, or themselves.
What is conflict?
short text that describes the original text, only included the main idea/important elements of the story, written in your own words
What is a summary?
A statement that disagrees with the author’s claim or presents the opposing viewpoint is called this.
What is counterclaim?
This sentence appears at the beginning of a body paragraph and explains the main point that supports the thesis.
What is a topic sentence?
This punctuation mark can correctly join two independent clauses without a conjunction, or introduce a list of items or examples.
What is a semicolon or a colon?
The way the author hints at events that will happen later in the story is called this.
What is foreshadow?
Name all parts of the plot diagram, in order
What is exposition, rising action, climax, falling action esolution?
This type of language uses strong, emotional words to influence how the reader feels about a topic or idea.
What is loaded language?
This paragraph restates the thesis in a new way, summarizes key points, and leaves the reader with a lasting idea or call to action.
What is a conclusion?
This punctuation is used to show possession or to form contractions, such as in “teacher’s” or “don’t.”
What is an apotrophe?