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What is theme?
Theme is the lesson/moral that a reader can learn from a story.
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What is a noun?
A noun is a person, place, or thing.
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What is a verb?
A verb expresses action in the sentence.
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What is a pronoun?
A pronoun is a word used in place of a noun.
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What is textual evidence?
Textual evidence is the proof from the story that helps support your claim.
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What is a logical fallacy?
A lack of logic in a story.
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What is ethos?
Ethos is the credibility of the author/speaker.
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What is pathos?
The author uses pathos to invoke a feeling into the reader.
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What is logos?
Logos is when an author uses logic and statistics to prove a point.
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What is a counterclaim?
A counterclaim is an argument that addresses the other side.
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What is a genre?
A genre is a category of writing.
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What is a claim?
A claim is an arguable statement that the author makes about their topic.
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What is an autobiography?
An autobiography is the story of a persons life.
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What are loaded words?
Loaded words have extra meaning that are used to bring out a certain emotion in the reader.
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What is a controlling idea?
A controlling idea is the big point or most important idea in the text.
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What is diction?
Diction is the authors word choice.
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What is tone?
The speaker/writers attitude towards the message.
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What is rhetoric?
The use of language effectively and persuasively.
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What are supporting details?
Supporting details prove the value of the main idea.
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What is a conjunction?
Conjunctions join words, phrases, or clauses, and they indicate the relationship between the elements joined.
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What is a preposition?
A preposition is a word placed before a noun or pronoun to form a phrase modifying another word in the sentence.
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What is an adverb?
An adverb is a word used to modify a verb, an adjective, or another adverb.
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What is an adjective?
An adjective is a word used to modify, or describe, a noun or pronoun
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What is STEAL?
STEAL is the speech, thoughts, effect on others, actions, and looks that help describe a character.
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What is an inference?
An inference is a combination of text clues and basic knowledge.