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Acronyms and Things
All About the Text!
What He Meant Was...(Author's Purpose and Text Analysis)
Fiction vs. Non-fiction
Full of Surprises
100
The sections of the GED exam.
What are Science, Language Arts, Math, and Science?
100
The type of evidence in writing that includes data or numbers.
What is statistical?
100
This is one purpose for an author writing or trying to convince someone to take your side.
What is to persuade?
100
True or False - Fiction can only contain false or made up information
What is false?
100
The color associated with the states where the majority of voters voted Republican i the past three presidential elections.
What is a red (state)?
200
RAFTS is used to help students understand Writing Prompts. The "A" stands for this.
What is an Audience?
200
The place where the main idea is usually found in text.
What is the first paragraph?
200
When you try to guess what the author is trying to say based on the facts and what is written.
What is inference?
200
A biography or an autobiography is an example of this.
What is non-fiction?
200
The time and place where the action takes place (e.g., decade, geography, climate, etc.)
What is setting?
300
When discussing thesis statements, students had to do this (i.e., pick a side).
What is agree or disagree?
300
This is one type of graphic that is used to accompany text? (It should help explain the text)
What is: (table, graph, chart, photo or map)?
300
The three main purposes an author writes text
What is to persuade, entertain, or inform?
300
Textbook, newspaper article, essay, or myth, of these four, the one that is fiction.
What is myth?
300
A statement that is in your own words and reflects your position on a topic.
What is a thesis statement?
400
The score you need to pass one section of the GED exam.
What is 145?
400
Instructions or a question that one responds to. (Hint: Get ready to write.)
What is "A Writing Prompt"
400
claim, counterclaim, reason, evidence
What are the elements of an argument?
400
Two types of genre that describes written work.
Fiction and Non-Fiction.
400
The cost of the GED Practice Test offered by PGCC.
What is "0" or free?
500
GED
What is General Education Development?
500
Irony (a contradiction) , an expression that is usually the opposite of the meaning, is a type of this.
What is a rhetorical device?
500
The element in an argument where information is provided to support your position.
What is evidence?
500
The type of story that has a plot - beginning, middle, and end?
What is fiction?
500
The part of speech that is a person, place, or thing.
What is a noun?