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Nonfiction Cont...
Nonfiction X3
Vocab
100
The who or the what of a passage + the most important information about the who or the what.
What is Main Idea?
100

Compare and Contrast, Descrptive, Chronological are examples of this. 

Who is text structure.?

100
The attitude of the author
What is the tone?
100
The text focuses on the similarities and differences between two people, things or ideas.
What is Compare and Contrast?
100
an author's attitude toward the subject
What is tone?
200
The author’s reason for writing.
What is Author's Purpose?
200

These are the three purposes of the author. 

Inform, Entertain, and Persuade

200
The way the audience feels based on the text. 
What is mood?
200
The text focuses on providing the reader with new data, statistics, or anecdotes on a given topic. 
What is an informational text?
200

main idea, lesson, or insight about life

What is theme?

300
An educated guess based on the information in a passage and your prior knowledge (what you already know.)
What is an Infer/Inference?
300

What are the three rhetorical appeals?

What is Ethos, Pathos, Logos ?

300
A conclusion made by the reader based on a given amount of information. 
What is an inference?
300
This text is attempting to convince someone to think differently by using arguments and data to support those arguments. 
A persuasive text
300
an author's word choice
What is diction?
400
Professional or academic language; sometimes uses more difficult (WOW) words.
What is Formal Language?
400
Someone says that you should use a certain toothpaste because 85 percent of dentist use it. 

What is an Ethos or Logos Appeal?

400

This kind of text explains things in the order that they happened. 

What is chronological?

400
What happens as a result of the event or action (what happens after)
What is Effect?
400
– Words that have the same meaning.
What is Synonym?
500
The text emphasizes HOW actions or events CAUSE others to take place.
What is Cause and Effect?
500

Not the dictionary definition but the feelings that we connect to words. 

What is connotation?

500
The way an author arranges/organizes the text.
What is Organizational Pattern?
500
A personal belief or judgment that cannot be proven.
What is Opinion?
500
a metaphor that is used throughout a stanza or an entire poem.
What is Extended Metaphor?