Cause & Effect
What is Cause and Effect?
the relationship between two events where one event (the cause) makes the other event (the effect) happen
How are these two things alike and different?
What is "Key Distinctions"
In what order do these events happen?
What is "The Steps in this process"
What does the author describe about?
What is "The Topic"
Which of the Following Text Structures tells about the difference between two things.
A. Cause and Effect
B. Compare and Contrast
C. Description
B. Compare and Contrast
If you forget to study for a test. What is the effect?
A. You Fail the test
B. You Pass the test
A. You Fail the test
The specific signal words an author might use include similarly, likewise, but, and on the other hand.
What is "Compare and Contrast."
This war came first: The Civil War or the Revolutionary War.
What is the Revolutionary War.
This large desert in North Africa is the largest in the world.
What is the "Sahara Desert".
"As a result of," "consequently," "since," and "due to" are all signal words that indicate this type of text structure.
What is "Cause and Effect."
If your lights turn off. What would be the Cause?
A. Someone switched them off
B. There was a power outage
A. Someone switched them off
These two major US cities are on opposite coasts, but both have famous Hollywood sign and movie industries.
What are New York City and Los Angeles?
This is the primary organizational pattern used when an author describes events based on the time they occurred, often using specific dates.
What is Chronological Order
These are the only two planets in our solar system that do not have moons.
What are "Mercury and Venus?"
What problem does the author introduce?
What is "the Solutions offered"
Why did this happen?
What is the "result of the event?"
Identify the Function of the Specific word
The word "also" is used for this purpose in writing.
What is Comparing
Arrange the following words in the sequence in which they occur in the dictionary and name the word that comes first: Discourage, Disadvantage, Delight, Deformation, Defame.
What is Defame
Headings in this 1854 work include "Solitude", "Brute Neighbors", and "The Pond in Winter"
What is Walden?
Identify the Function if the Specific word
The word "likewise" is a keyword used for this.
What is Comparing
When an author wants to illustrate how one decision or event directly and perhaps inevitably leads to another, they employ this text structure.
What is "the cause and effect text structure?"
Identify the Function of the Specific Word
The word "whereas" is a keyword used for this.
What is Contrasting
A narrative text structure that tells a story in order, without necessarily using specific dates but focusing on the flow of events, relies on this concept.
What is sequence (or order of events)
On August 15, 1994, Bill Clinton made this an independent agency, 59 years and one day after FDR signed the original act.
What is the Social Security Administration?
After more than 150 years, this man is still the tallest president in U.S. history.
Who is Abraham Lincoln