Vocabulary
Support/proof of your claim or answer.
What is evidence?
An action.
Ex., singing, talking, hiking.
What is a verb?
How the author feels about the topic of the text.
What is tone?
Statement that a writer believes to be true when building an argument.
What is a claim?
The big picture of a topic an author is trying to tell you.
What is central or main idea?
Used to separate parts of a compound sentence.
Ex. The students were happy to play Jeopardy but they couldn't wait for the pep rally.
What is a comma?
The narrator or character's attitude or perspective about story events and ideas.
What is point-of-view?
To express thoughts or feelings, to inform or explain, to persuade, to entertain.
What is the author's purpose?
Only retelling the most important parts of a story, including the main idea and supporting details
What is a summary?
Used when citing evidence to set off a speaker's exact words.
What are quotation marks?
The groups of lines in a poem.
What is a stanza?
Character, Plot, Setting, Theme, and Conflict are...
What are elements of a story?
Marta attempted to placate the angry customer by offering him a free cup of coffee.
A. Calm
B. Anger
C. Remove
D. Annoy
What is A?
A sentences with two independent clauses that should be separated by a comma, semicolon, or period.
Ex., The dog was tired he immediately went to sleep after his walk.
What is a run-on sentence?
The description of the setting and explanation of actor's actions/behavior in a play or drama.
What are stage directions?
Presenting the text in another form other than print.
What are digital, video, or multimedia?
Astronauts usually live on space shuttles for six-month periods, but some sojourns can last up to a year.
A. Guests
B. Investigations
C. Vists
D. Vacations
What is C?
An incomplete sentence that is either missing a noun or verb.
Ex., The students, who were busy playing jeopardy.
What is a sentence fragment?
Chronological, compare-and-contrast, cause-and-effect, and question-and-answer are all examples of...
What is text structure?
Authors include _________ _________, such as evidence and elaboration, to develop the main idea.
What are supporting details?