Nolan Special
This is a guess based on clues. Author's leave some details unstated; it is up to the readers to "fill the blanks" and make guesses about characters, events, and setting.
What is an inference?
This is the belief or position an author of argumentative text makes. What do you need to back it up?
What is a claim? You need text evidence to back it up.
This is faulty reasoning that weaken an argument.
What is a logical fallacies?
She (write,writes) every day.
What is writes?
The interaction of characters and events are developed through the message of the writing. The name of the text message is ______________.
What is a theme? (Bonus how do characters interact with an event?)
This includes exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, and resolution.
What is the plot line (story line)?
This is presenting the opposite views in an argumentative text. What does it need to back it up?
What is a counter claim. It needs text evidence to back it up.
These are rhetorical devices that uses comparisons to show communication
What are juxtaposition and cause-and-affect analysis?
The student, as well as the committee members, (is, are) excited.
What is "is"?
"When your family, you take care of your own." is a message or theme from what story? What does it mean?
What is an answer that is a personal connection to the theme of "The Horned Toad" by Gerald Haslam.
This is how you learn about characters without a direct statement.
What is actions and dialogue in plays? What is actions, thoughts, dialogue, descriptions in stories?
This is who the argumentative text or speech is written for. Why is it important.
What is the audience. It is important so that the word choice and message matches who you are talking to.
This device states that asks a questions that you already know the answer for to get interest in your topic.
What is a rhetorical question?
This sentence has a subject and a verb and can stand on it's own.
What is an independent clause?
This is a catagory that includes chronological or sequence, cause and effect, descriptive, problem and solution, comparison and contract, and definition.
What are organizational patterns? (Bonus - Why would an author choose an organizational pattern?)
This is the main message of a passage?
What is a theme?
The intended readers in mind when writing or speaking
What is an audience?
This is language that stirs listeners' feelings rather than prompts them to think critically. What are the three types?
What is emotional appeals? The three types are appeal to sympathy, appeal to shared values, and appeal to negative emotions.
This contains a subject and a verb, but does not stand alone as a sentence. It is usually a prepositional clause.
What is an dependent clause?
This is the main reason for writing. For example, an author may want to entertain, inform, or persuade the reader. Sometimes an author is trying to teach a moral lesson or reflect an experience.
What is the author's purpose?
This type of writing accurate and verifiable information based on evidence, not opinions or personal narratives. It uses text features and graphic features.
What is informational text? Bonus _ What are some text features and graphic features?
What is the essential question? Give a RACE answer to the question.
What is When is it Right to Take a Stand? Race answer should restate the question, give an answer, and evidence for your answer.
We learn this to communicate well, get our point across, and truly be heard. This is a strategy for communication (rhetoric). It can be positive or negative. Another definition is special patterns of language that emphasize ideas or stir readers' emotions.
What is rhetoric or rhetorical devices and logical fallocies?
This sentence contains an independent clause and one or more dependent clauses.
What is a complex sentence? (Put together by commas.)
The author purposely chooses word choice to create mood (reader's feeling of written work), voice (author's individual writing style), and tone (writer's attitude). These are the author's tools in writing.
What is author's craft?