Terms to Know
The reason WHY an author writes a text
What is the Author's Purpose?
Rhetorical Questions
What is the use of a question that allows the reader to think about possible answers?
The way the paper is structured
What is a text structure?
Persuade, Inform, Entertain
What are the three main types of purpose?
Fact
What is a correct piece of historical, societal, or statistical information?
Compare and Contrast
What is it when the text discusses similarities and differnces between two or more things?
By making rhetorical choices
How does an author accomplish their purpose?
Quotation
What is something someone else said?
Cause and Effect
What is it when the text explains events and the results of these events?
Emotion, Logic, Trust
What are the three main effects of a rhetorical choice on an audience?
What is something that happened to you or to someone else to support a point?
Chronological
What is it when the text describes a sequence of events in time order?
What is a rhetorical choice?
Examples
What is evidence from a text, movie, or book which supports the point?
Description
What is it when the text describes characteristics of something in a lot of detail?