Evidence and Support
Across Texts
Within Texts
Linguistic and Stylistic Choices
100

It is a piece of information that can be demonstrated or proven to be true.

What is "Facts"?

100

This affects the way the readers comprehend and respond to a text. It uses emotive language (ex. hurt, angered, reluctant) and vivid imagery (ex. threw, cascade, basked) to achieve certain 'emotional effect'. 

What is "Tone"?

100

''How many roads must a man walk down before you call him a man?' (Bob Dylan)

This sentence is using what language device?

What is "Rhetorical Question"?

100
It is designed to make the reader feel something and have an emotional response to the text.

What is "Emotive Language"?

200

It is a mini‐story from personal experience about a person or incident

What is an "Anecdote"?

200

This voice/ language involves the reader at a more casual and personal level. This makes the text more accessible to the readers.

What is "Informal Voice/ Language"?

200

This device uses three words or reasons put together in a list.

What is "List of Three"?

200

This creates an image within the reader's the reader's mind by expressing a resemblance between things of different kinds with 'like' or 'as'.

What is "Simile"?

300

It can be used like facts to emphasize and demonstrate the point of the writer.

What is "Statistics"?

300

This narration allows for a separation between the narrator and the character and allows for more information to be revealed to the audience of which even the character may not be aware.

What is "Third-Person Perspective/ Point of View"?

300

This language gives the text an authoritative edge, therefore, making the text sound indisputable.

What is "Assertive/ Imperative Language"?

300

This creates an image within the reader's the reader's mind by giving human qualities or characteristics to animals, objects, and ideas.

What is "Personification"?

400

"Aphrodite stinks. She does not deserve to be crowned as the 'fairest'," is an example of _____________?

What is "Opinion"?

400

It is narrative mode that involves one narrator speaking of and about themselves – use of ‘I’ and personal pronouns like ‘we’, and ‘us’.

What is "First-Person Perspective/ Point of View"?

400

"I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American Dream. I have a dream that one day this nation will … I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia…" is using __________.

What is "Repetition"?

400

This technique uses imagery descriptions of sounds, sights, smells, feelings, and tastes.

What is "Five Senses"?

500

This device can create added authority to make the text more convincing as it uses evidence without changing the whole statement from expert sources.

What is "Quotation"?

500

It is the language that we use in situations that are serious, ceremonial, or academic in nature.

What is "Formal Voice/ Language"?

500

It is the repetition of initial consonant sounds at the start of two or more words.

What is "Alliteration"?

500

"I want that apple so bad that Olympus will fall if I will not acquire it!" is using __________.

What is "Hyperbole/ Exaggeration"?