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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
a larger company that owns a smaller company What could we call the smaller company in relation to the larger company?
What is a subsidiary?
100
the author's reason for writing
What is the author's 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 passage
What is the main idea?
200
a new way of doing something
What is innovation?
200
the author's feeling or attitude toward the topic
What is 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
telling a lie in court while on the witness stand
What is perjury?
300
4 purposes an author can have when writing
What are inform, instruct, persuade, and entertain?
300
a statement that shows the author's feelings, attitude, belief, and understanding about the topic
What is an opinion?
300
using the clues the author gives you along with what you already know about the topic you are reading about
What is making a logical inference or a reasonable conclusion?
400
an unstated main idea or a main idea that has to be inferred
What is the implied main idea?
400
a governor pardons a convicted person and declares him or her to be innocent
What is clemency?
400
3 general categories of author's tone
What are positive, negative, and neutral?
400
a statement that shows the author's opinion as a guess or prediction about the future
What is an assumptive statement or an assumption?
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
proving the innocence of a convicted person and setting him or her free
What is exoneration?
500
3 synonyms for neutral
What are objective, straightforward, factual, and informative?
500
5 types of opinions
What are hypothesis, theory, assumption, value statements, and exaggeration?
500
the positive or negative feeling a word gives to the reader
What is connotation?