Nonfiction
The main idea or main point of the text.
What is the central idea?
This is the main idea or message in a literary work.
What is theme?
This is how many paragraphs that are in an informative essay.
What is 5?
This is how many paragraphs that are in an argumentative essay.
What is 6?
This is a way an author structures the text by going in order of events.
What is chronological order?
This is a type of summary of the text without bias or personal opinion.
What is objective summary?
This is the attitude of the author towards the subject they are writing about.
What is tone?
This is how many supporting points you should have in an informative essay.
What is at least 3?
This is the paragraph that an argumentative essay has that an informative essay does not have.
What is a counter argument paragraph?
This is when an author places two or more ideas side by side to compare and contrast.
What is juxtaposed?
These are clues that help the reader figure out meaning and understand main concepts or unknown words.
What are context clues?
A thing that represents or stands for something else, especially a material object representing something abstract.
What is a symbol?
This is a key word in the prompt to let you know that the essay is informative.
What is explain or what is analyze?
These are the key words that you will find in an prompt that lets you know it is argumentative.
What is argue or what is take a position or stance?
This is a strategy to use when looking at multiple choice answers.
What is eliminating the two that are obviously wrong?
These are types of language that authors use in writing to compare, clarify or add meaning.
What are rhetorical devices?
This is the way the writing makes the reader feel.
What is mood?
This is the most important sentence in your introduction paragraph.
What is the thesis?
This is when you bring the argument back around to your side in a counter argument paragraph.
What is rebuttal?
This is when an author gives an example in the text of something well known such as biblical, historical or mythological.
What is an allusion?
This is the words or phrases an author uses in the text.
What is diction?
The emotional meaning of a word.
What is connotation?
This is what comes after context in your body paragraphs.
What is evidence (direct quotes)?
This is what is included in an argumentative thesis.
What is stance and 3 reasons why?
This is the "paragraphs" in a poem.
What are stanzas?