Three types of writing that show the author's purpose.
What are informational, persuasive and entertaining?
100
The most important idea in a paragraph or passage.
What is the main idea?
100
A word or phrase near an difficult word that helps the reader understand the word's meaning.
What is context clue?
100
A comparison between two unlike things that does not use like or as.
What is a metaphor?
100
The sequence in which things happen in order and tells what happens, first, next, after, etc.
What is chronological order?
200
Type of writing that shows the author's personal opinion.
What is persuasive writing?
200
This sentence directly states the main idea of a paragraph.
What is the topic sentence?
200
It is the opposite of another word.
What is an antonym?
200
An extreme exaggeration.
What is hyperbole?
200
An alphabetical listing of words with their synonyms and antonyms.
What is a thesaurus?
300
These explain, describe, prove, or give examples about the main idea and the topic sentence.
What are supporting details?
300
The definition of synonym.
What is a word that means the same as another word.
300
A phrase that means something different from its literal meaning; often used by a particular region or group of people.
What is an idiom?
300
Why people use the dictionary. (3 things)
What is
a) to learn the definition of words
b) to learn a word's pronunciation
c) to learn a word's origin
d) to see how to spell a word
400
Persuasive and often dishonest writing.
What is propaganda?
400
These same people are not at all loath, which means unwilling, to be thought of as different.
What does loath mean?
What is unwilling?
400
A comparison of two unlike things using like or as.
What is a simile?
400
A source of information
What is a source?
500
The words first, second, next, before, after, then, while, lastly, finally, and the end signal what?
What is sequence?
500
Explanations appealing to the senses, proof or evidence, statistical data are all examples of this.
What is supporting detail?
500
The major thing that happened while I was in prison in Scotland was a conspiracy, or plan, among the prisoners to escape.
What word signals a context clue?
What is or?
500
Language that does not mean what it actually says.