Facts/Opinions
Features of Facts
Connotations
Critiques
100

fact or opinion

The clear, blue water was 300 feet deep.

What is a fact?

100

Cautious language

What is hedging?

100

Choose the positive connotation:


self-sufficient                  self-aggrandizing

What is self-sufficient?

100

standard of judgment for a critique

What is criteria?

200

According to my best friend,

What is an opinion?

200

vocabulary that has an objective tone

What is neutral vocabulary?

200

Choose the neutral connotation:


critique                                 response

What is response?

200

critiques should be _____; be balanced between positive and negative remarks.

What is fair?

300

The graph indicates that more people prefer pepperoni pizza.

What is fact?

300

The type of tone that is meant to give information

What is informative tone?

300

choose the negative connotation:


easy-going                           half-hearted                        

What is half-hearted?

300

A critique should offer ______ to prove evaluative remarks.

What is evidence?

400

Exactly 529 people were at the conference.

What is a fact

400

words with quotation marks that show what someone said

What are quotes?

400

choose the neutral connotation:


feast                              table

What is table?

400

Critiques must include a _______ of the topic that is being critiqued

What is a summary?

500

It is thought that Gandhi was one of the greatest men of all time.

What is an opinion?

500

The type of tone that lists specific information.

What is enumerative tone?

500

Choose the positive connotation:


thin                      scrawny

What is thin?

500

When someone favors one group over another 

What is bias?