Skills 1
Skills 2
Skills 3
Skills 4
Skills 5
100
Inform, Persuade, Entertain
What are 3 examples of author's purpose?
100
Purpose of an advertisement
What is to persuade?
100
Alliteration
What is using one letter to start each word in a phrase?
100
5 W's- How
What is a strategy to make an inference?
100
25 words
What is about how long a summary should be?
200
3 steps to identify the main idea of a passage
What are 1) identify the topic, 2) identify supporting details, 3) identify the main idea
200
Purpose of a fiction novel
What is to entertain?
200
BAM!
What is onomatopoeia?
200
When you describe a character
What is CHARACTERIZATION?
200
Depressed
What is MOOD?
300
5 elements of plot
What are characters, setting, conflict, climax, resolution
300
Theme
What is the main purpose of or lesson learned from a story?
300
The feeling the author wishes to set when writing a story
What is the TONE?
300
A phrase that doesn't say what it actually means
What is an IDIOM?
300
Ominous
What is TONE?
400
inference
What is an educated guess?
400
Ways to organize a text
What are compare/contrast, problem/solution, and sequence of events?
400
Something that is true and can be proved
What is a FACT?
400
Something that cannot be proved and can change from one person to another
What is an OPINION?
400
How the reader feels as a result of reading something
What is MOOD?
500
So the book isn't too easy or too hard
What is why an author must think about his/her AUDIENCE when writing a book?
500
An inference that can be made when seeing the crowd still cheering as they leave a stadium.
What is that the team won?
500
Personification
What is giving something that is not human human characteristics?
500
Direct characterization
What is when the author directly states a description of a character?
500
When the author doesn't explicitly tell you about the character, but you can figure out what the character is like based on his/her actions/thoughts/ feeling etc.
What is INDIRECT CHARACTERIZATION?