Literary Texts
The signpost that highlights events, images, or particular words that repeat over a portion of the story.
What is an Again and Again signpost?
The signpost that highlights specific quantities or comparisons to depict the amount, size, or scale; or the writer is vague when we would expect more precision.
What is a Number and Stats signpost?
The signpost that highlights questions that characters raise that reveal their inner struggles.
What is a Tough Questions signpost?
The signpost that highlights opinions or conclusions of someone who is an expert on the subject or someone who might be a participant in or a witness to an event; or the author might cite other people to provide support for a point.
What is a Quoted Word Signpost
The signpost that highlights a recollection by a character that interrupts the forward progress of the story.
What is a Memory Moment signpost?
The signpost that highlights the importance of taking a questioning stance or attitude when you read nonfiction.
What is a Big Questions signpost?
The signpost that highlights a sudden realization of something that shifts a character's actions or understanding of self, others, or the world.
What is an Aha Moment signpost?
The signpost that highlights language that leaves no doubt about a situation or an event, allows no compromise, or seems to exaggerate or overstate a case.
What is an Extreme or Absolute Language signpost?
The signpost that highlights advice or insight about life that a wiser character, who is usually older, offers to the main character.
What is a Words of the Wiser signpost?
The signpost that highlights a sharp contrast between what we would expect and what we observe happening; a difference between two or more elements in the text.
What is a Contrasts and Contradictions signpost?
The signpost that highlights a sharp contrast between what we would expect and what we observe the character doing; behavior that contradicts previous behavior or well-established behaviors.
What is a Contrasts and Contradictions signpost?
The signpost that highlights vocabulary that is unfamiliar to the reader-for example, a word with multiple meanings, a rare or technical word, a discipline-specific word, or one with a far removed antecedent.
What is a Word Gaps signpost?