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Text Features
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Persuasive Techniques
New Words
100
A division within a non- fiction text.
What is a section?
100
Jack and Jill are body-bodies and always do everything together
What is "go in cahoots"?
100
It tells you the story.
What is "plot"?
100
The phrase 'as far as I am concerned" introduces it.
What is an opinion?
100
Farmers do that when they gather ripened crops.
What is "harvest"?
200
Notes at the bottom of a page.
What are footnotes?
200
We show our indifference towards someone by doing this.
What is "give someone the cold shoulder"?
200
It shows the writer's feeling towards a character or event in the story.
What is "mood"?
200
Writers use these to show that they are against a certain detail in their writing.
What are negative words?
200
To keep something or someone alive
What is "to sustain"?
300
Explanation under a picture.
What is caption?
300
We use it when we are going to explain a long or complicated idea, story, etc. in a quick and simple way
What is "to put it in a nutshell"?
300
Weather, architecture, clothes, hairdo, season, location are all part of it.
What is "setting"?
300
This is a word frequently used to persuade someone.
What is "should"?
300
To cut with sharp sweeping strokes, as with a sword, knife, etc
What is "to slash"?
400
Shows the world or part of it.
What is a map?
400
Parents do that with their kids.
What is "raise"?
400
It tells me in a nutshell what the story is about.
What is "theme"?
400
The deliberate spreading of information, rumors, or ideas used to attract people into a specific action or to push them away from it.
What is "propaganda"?
400
To interchange repeatedly and regularly with one another in time or place; rotate
What is "to alternate"?
500
Important words come up in this way.
What are highlighted words?
500
To keep someone or something alive.
What is "to sustain"?
500
Exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, and resolution are not literary elements. They belong to something else.
What is "plot"?
500
You often need several of these to persuade people.
What is "evidence"?
500
We do that when we do not want to waste the resources of our planet.
What is "to conserve"?