Roots
Rhetoric
Author's Purpose
100

Where is the prefix of a word located.

What is the beginning of a word?

100

What is another word for figurative language?

What is a Rhetoric?

100

What describes the an authors reason for writing a passage or text?

What is Author's Purpose?

200

Where is the suffix of a word located?

What is at the end of a word?

200

What part of figurative language is used to compare to unlike things using like or as?

What is a Simile?

200

What would be the purpose an author would write a children's book? 

What is to entertain?

300

In a passage an author says "the wind whispered to the trees," when describing when way the wind interacted with the trees. What form of rhetoric is this?

What is personification?

300

What would describe the way an author's method of building a passage?

What is authors craft/technique?

400

A author uses repetition of words at the end of a line. What part of figurative language is this?

What is a Epistrophe?

400

What purpose would an author have for writing an essay about the effect pollution has on the ecosystem?

What is to inform?

500

Some times in a passage an author will put contrasting elements together that are so unlike that the effect is surprising. When using rhetoric what would this be called?

What is a Juxtaposition?

500

True or false? The answer to an authors purpose will always be a verb + your explanation.

What is true?