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What is main/central idea?
What the story is mostly about?
What are main characters?
The characters who are most in the story
Rhetorical Appeal that uses logic to try to persuade readers.
What is logos?
Non-literal meaning of some, or all the words used.
What is figuerative language?
Rhetorical Appeal that uses ethics to try to persuade readers.
What is Ethos?
What does the author use to set the mood?
To back up an answer with details.
What is support?
How are they the same/alike?
What is a compare?
Words that have the same definitions
What is a synonym?
Words that have opposite definitions
What is an antonym?
The message or lesson that the author wants the reader to understand, usually about a life.
What is a theme?
The reason a writer wrote the text for.
What is Author's Purpose?
An exaggerated statement or claim not meant to be taken literally.
What is a hyperbole?
a unifying idea that is a recurrent element in a literary or artistic work
what is theme?
Rhetorical Appeal that uses emotions to try to persuade readers.
What is a Pathos?
The base word you start with before adding prefixes or suffixes
What is a root word?
When the author states what his/her thoughts are.
What is explicit?
What does personification mean?
Giving human qualities to an animal or object
Tells us more about a noun. Describes the noun. Examples: green slow, five, stinky, tall, round
What is adjectives?
The author’s attitude toward his/her subject and characters.
What is tone?
A figure of speech that makes a reference to a place, person, or something that happened; can be real or imaginary
What is an Allusion?
Persuade, Inform, Entertain
what is reasons authors write (PIE)?
addition of details and explanation
what is elaboration?
When you have to read between the lines or use details to determine what the author’s message is.
What is a Implied/Implicit?
The arrangements of events according to the time they occurred (i.e., from first to last)
What is Chronological order?