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Purpose and Tone
Fact and Opinion
Wild Card
100
a word or phrase that tells the subject of a passage or what the passage is about
What is the topic?
100
What is an author's point of view or position on a controversial issue called?
author's argument or author's claim
100
reason for writing
What is the purpose?
100
a statement that can be proven
What is a fact?
100
a word that has a similar meaning to another word
What is a synonym?
200
a complete sentence that gives the topic of the passage and the author's point about the topic
What is the main idea?
200
a controversial topic
What is a topic on which many people disagree?
200
the author's feelings and attitude toward the topic
What is the author's tone?
200
a statement that cannot be proven
What is an opinion?
200
a word that has the opposite meaning of another word
What is an antonym?
300
the facts, statistics, and specific pieces of information that explain the main idea
What are the supporting details?
300
3 examples of fact-based support for an argument
What are statistics, case studies, research results, and factual examples from the real world?
300
4 purposes an author can have when writing
What are inform, instruct/teach, persuade, and entertain?
300
a statement that shows the author's feeling attitude, and understanding
What is an opinion?
300
using the clues the author gives along with what you already know about a topic
What is making an inference/drawing a conclusion?
400
an unstated main idea; a main idea that has to be inferred
What is an implied main idea?
400
3 examples of experiential -based suppport
What are logical reasoning, observations, and expert testimony?
400
3 general categories of author's tone
What are positive, negative, and neutral?
400
an assumption
What is a statement that shows the author's opinion as a guess or prediction about the future?
400
3 types of context clues
What are word forms, parts of speech, synonyms, antonyms, definitions in the text, examples, and a general sense of the passage?
500
2 types of supporting details
What are major and minor details?
500
An author's argument should be...name 3 descriptions.
What are valid, relevant, credible, and complete?
500
3 synonyms for "neutral"
What are objective, straightforward, factual, and informative? (3)
500
5 types of opinions
What are hypothesis, theory, assumption, exaggeration, and value statements?
500
the positive or negative feeling a word gives in a context
What is connotation?