Reading
What are the 5 author's purposes
Persuade
describe
entertain
inform
explain
Capital letter in the beginning of the sentence, punctuation and subject and predicate.
What is theme?
The moral or lesson learned
1st
What type of item will help you realize a passage is in chronological order?
Timeline
Name the text structure for telling something in steps
Chronological order
A compound sentence need to include what?
A comma and a fanboy.
What is the Main Idea of a text?
What the text is mostly about.
If I were to say that Tom was feeling down in the dumps. What could you infer and why?
He was sad because "down in the dumps" is an idiom for feeling sad.
Name a character trait that means never to give up.
Determined
No
In an argumentative text the author will have a 2 things a _________ and a ____________.
Claim and counter claim.
Pack your things and fill the car.
Get your map and drive afar.
Get some rest or go and play.
Vacations don't happen every day.
WHAT DOES AFAR MEAN?????
far away
What is wrong with this sentence:
I wish I could have a bunny, they take such great care of them.
a. take the comma away.
b. change them to themselves.
B
In poetry what are the little paragraphs called?
Stanzas
what does the word sprawl mean?
To lay out on the ground
The author's purpose in an Argumentative text is.....
Persuade
What type of genre are text features mostly found in?
Informational
My tongue is tied... is an example of what?
Idiom
Name the Text Features
description
compare and contrast
order and sequence (Chronological order)
cause and effect
problem and solution
What do you need when separating a list of items?
comma
In a drama there is dialogue, what is dialogue?
When 2 characters are talking to each other.
Name all the genres. All 6
Fiction
Informational
Drama
Poetry
Argumentative
Biography
Name the figurative language. and an example of each.
Simile, Metaphors, personification, onomatopoeia, hyperbole, alliteration.