What is a theme?
What is: Life lesson or moral of the story
What is the definition of "inference?"
What is: An educated guess or assumption based off of known facts expressed in a passage or argument.
Define the term "cite."
What is: To reference to a line, paragraph, or section of a text.
What is "textual evidence?"
What is: Any specific information from a text, used to support an idea about the text.
Which part of speech is the following word that is placed inside the parenthesis?
(Love) is a beautiful thing!!!
A. Noun
B. Pronoun
C. Adverb
D. Preposition
What is:
A. Noun
What is the central Idea?
What is: What the text is mainly about
True or False...
A conclusion is a type of inference.
What is:
True
Define the term "evidence."
What is: Any details that will strengthen, add variety, or weight to any argument.
"Information that is obvious in a text, in which the reader does not have to guess about?"
What is:
Explicit
Which part of speech modifies a noun?
What is:
Adjective
A text can have multiple themes.
True or False
What is: True.
True or False....
A generalization is a type of inference.
What is:
True
Define the term "inference."
What is: An assumption, educated guess, or conclusion of based off of given facts about a text, or argument.
Fill in the blank.
"Explicit is to ______ as a command is to order.
A. Textual
B. Cite
C. Indirect
D. Direct
What is:
D. Direct
Which of the following nouns could be labeled as an idea?
A. Cleveland Cavaliers
B. Joy
C. Smart
D. Athletic
What is:
B. Joy
What is a topic?
What is: The subject of the text
Fill in the blank...
Making inferences helps you to ______ ideas about the situations in the text even though the author does not directly state them.
A. Understand
B. Confuse
C. Plagiarize
What is:
A. Understand
What does the term "textual" mean?
What is:
Part of text.
Fill in the blank...
When we have ideas about what we read, we must cite _____ textual evidence to support our ideas.
A. Imaginary
B. Supportive
C. Explicit
D. All of the above.
C. Explicit
What are the two steps of the "problem solving" process?
What is: Brainstorming and Logical Thinking
Correct the following run-on sentence by using the correct punctuation.
Paraphrasing helps you understand complicated readings plagiarism is copying someone else's words and ideas and claiming that they are your own.
What is: Placing a period after the word "readings." And then capitalizing the "P" in plagiarism.
Paraphrasing helps you understand complicated readings. Plagiarism is copying someone else's words and ideas and claiming that they are your own.
True or False...
Conclusions, generalizations, paraphrasing and predictions are types of inferences.
False: Paraphrasing is not a form of inference.
Define the term "evidence."
What is: Support for your answer, opinion, or idea.
Why do we cite textual evidence?
What is: Reason 1: To support our ideas about a certain passage or argument.
Reason 2: To prove that we are accurate in our answer.
The most commonly used suffix to identify an adverb is????
What is:
-ly