Text Features and Text Structures
What is a visual in the text that helps you understand what you are reading.
Text feature
What is author's purpose?
The reason why an author writes something.
This is the act of using words or ideas from the text to support your answer.
Citing evidence
In the sentence, "The arboretum, a place where many tress are grown for study, is a beautiful spot," what does the word arboretum mean?
A place where many trees are grown for study.
True or false: a claim is the writer's opinion or position on a topic.
True
What tells you how the text is organized?
Text structure
What is the point of a rhetorical device?
To make a piece of writing more powerful, memorable, or persuasive.
Which is the most common phrase used as a starter sentence for citing text evidence?
"According to the text..."
In the sentence, "The boy was gregarious, or very sociable, and made friends easily." What does gregarious mean?
Very sociable
Which of the following is a claim?
1) Dogs are loyal pets.
2) Dogs bark loudly.
1) Dogs are loyal pets.
Are the following examples of text features or text structures?
-Title/Subtitle
-Heading/Subheading
-Photo/Graphic/Image
Text features
Is the following list one of rhetorical devices or of author's purpose?
-Simile/Metaphor
-Hyperbole
-Connotation
Rhetorical Device
When citing evidence what must you always connect back to?
Claim or answer
In the sentence, "The movie was a total flop, that is, it completely failed to attract an audience." What does flop mean?
Failed.
What is an argument?
Are the following examples of text features or text structures?
-Compare and contrast
-Descriptive
-Cause and Effect
Text structures
Which acronym do we use to determine author's purpose and what do each of the letters stand for?
P.I.E
Persuade, Inform, Entertain
When you copy exact words from the text, which punctuation marks are required for citing?
Quotation marks
In the sentence, "She is a novice, or beginner, at piano." What does novice mean?
Beginner
What makes a strong claim?
1) being debatable
2) being obvious
3) being unrelated
1) Being debatable
This text structure shows how two or more things are alike and different. Give an example of what an author might use to show this structure.
Compare and contrast.
What is a positive and negative connotation for the word "house"?
Positive: mansion
Negative: shack
What is the difference between summarizing and citing evidence?
Summarizing uses your own words; citing uses the author's words.
In the sentence, "The desert is an arid place; it recieves little to no rain." What does arid mean?
A place with little to no rain.
Which of the following is a complete argument?
1) Homework is bad.
2) Homework should be limited because it causes stress and prevents family time.