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Author
Miscellaneous 1
Words and phrases
Miscellaneous 2
Progaganda
100
The author's viewpoint or perspective
What is the author's viewpoint?
100
Word order; grammar
What is syntax?
100
The base word.
What is a root word?
100
The way a story or article is organized.
What is organizational structure?
100
Ways to influence or persuade people
What is propaganda?
200
The way the author feels
What is the tone?
200
visual aids, maps, charts, tables
What are graphics?
200
A ending or beginning added to a base word.
What is an affix?
200
A question that you don't expect an answer to; symbolic
What is a rhetorical question?
200
A technique saying that "everyone" does this or buys this activity/product.
What is bandwagon?
300
The reason an author writes something.
What is author's purpose?
300
slanted writing that indicates importance
What is italics?
300
A guess based on what you know.
What is an inference?
300
A person or thing's activity; what they do
What is function?
300
A persuasive technique using a famous or well-known person to promote an idea/activity/product.
What is testimonial?
400
prejudice that unfairly slants author's writing
What is bias?
400
Finding the differences between two things.
What is contrast?
400
A statement that makes a comparison.
What is an analogy?
400
Giving hints of what will happen in a story.
What is foreshadowing?
400
A persuasive technique saying it must be true because so many people believe it.
What is appeal to numbers?
500
Perspective from which the author tells the story.
What is point of view?
500
A sentence stating the main idea or theme.
What is a thematic statement?
500
Writing that appeals to the five senses.
What is sensory detail?
500
The struggle between two characters or forces.
What is conflict?
500
A persuasive technique that draws on powerful emotions like fear, greed, or love.
What is emotional appeal?