Text Structure
This type of text examines the similarities and differences between two or more people, events, concepts, ideas.
What is Compare and Contrast
What a text is mostly about is called what?
What is Central Idea
What are the three types of authors' purpose?
What is to inform, to persuade, to entertain
The point of view in which the story is told by one of the characters in the story.
What is First-person point of view?
Which figurative language is when the word makes the POW! BANG! sound?
What is onomatopoeia?
This text structure is made up of Time, Dates, and Order.
What is Chronological or Sequence?
What is the central idea?
When you go to the park, there are many fun things to do. You can run on the grass and play tag with your friends. Some kids like to swing high on the swings. Others enjoy sliding down the slide. You might also have a picnic or play catch with a ball.
A. Rules at the park
B. Fun things to do at the park
C. Different kinds of parks
What is B. Fun things to do at the park
The reason the author wrote the text.
What is authors' purpose?
In a sentence containing a new word or phrase, often the sentences before or after it can provide the reader with clues regarding the meaning of the word. This is an example of what?
What are Context Clues?
What figurative language gives an object a human-like quality?
What is personification?
What text structure would this be: When the students did not study the material, they performed poorly on the test.
Cause & Effect
Every central idea should have this to back it up.
What is supporting details or evidence?
DAILY JEOPARDY - The author's attitude or feeling on a subject that can help you find the author's purpose.
What is tone?
This is the part of the plot where the conflict has ended
What is Resolution?
What is the following figurative language being used: She is as fast as a cheetah.
What is a simile?
What type of text structure was used in the following example?
The keyboard is the most widely used input device. It actually looks similar to a typewriter. Its features are standard character keys, function keys, special purpose keys, numeric keys, and cursor movement keys.
What is Descriptive?
When the central idea is NOT directly stated
What is implicit?
Martin Luther King Jr. was a civil rights activist who fought for all Americans, including African Americans to have equal rights.
This is an example of which type of author's purpose?
A. to inform B. to persuade C. to entertain
A-What is to inform?
The message of the story
What is theme?
The woman and her dog snores louder than a cargo train
What is Hyperbole?
What type of text structure was used in the following example?
Daily Double: A certain virus called NCOV or novel corona virus spread worldwide in 2020 affecting many countries economically and physically. Health practitioners of each country are finding solutions to stop its widespread. Hand washing with alcohol and wearing of masks may have prevented its spread.
What is Problem and Solution?
When the central idea is directly stated
What is explicit?
What is the author's purpose for an advertisement from Walmart telling you to buy some apples?
What is Persuade?
The part of the story that leads up to the climax
What is rising action?
DAILY DOUBLE: When an object represents something else, something
What is symbolism?