Vocabulary
This term describes a category of literature, like fiction, nonfiction, mystery, or science fiction.
What is genre?
This popular graphic organizer uses overlapping circles to help visualize similarities and differences.
What is a Venn diagram?
This type of evidence comes directly from the text and is put inside quotation marks.
What is a direct quote?
This is why an author chooses one structure over another, such as to inform, entertain, or persuade.
What is purpose?
Stories based on real events, people, or factual information fall under this genre.
What is nonfiction?
This word means to examine or break down details in a text to understand it better.
What is analyze?
Using graphic organizers like Venn diagrams helps readers clearly see these between two texts.
What are comparisons and contrasts?
True or False: When citing evidence, it’s okay to use a quote without explaining how it supports your answer.
What is false?
In a cause and effect structure, the author explains how one event causes another to happen. "Effect" refers to this part.
What is the result or outcome?
This genre often includes futuristic technology, space travel, or exploration of alternate universes.
What is science fiction?
If you read that a character shivers and puts on a coat, you might make this guess that it is cold outside.
What is an inference?
Both poems involve a mother and her child. In Dear Mama, Tupac uses heartfelt lyrics to show his appreciation. In Mother to Son, the mother uses this metaphor to show life’s challenges.
What is staircase?
A strong response introduces evidence with a phrase like “According to the author…” or this common phrase.
What is “The text states…”?
This is the part of the text where the author usually introduces the main idea or argument.
What is the introduction?
This genre includes real events from the past but adds fictional characters or events to the story.
What is historical fiction?
This is the main point or message the author wants to convey in a text.
What is the central idea?
In Mother to Son, the staircase symbolizes the struggles and challenges of life. In The Tell-Tale Heart, the heartbeat symbolizes this.
What is guilt?
When using specific words or phrases from the text, it’s helpful to include this, which tells the reader where to find it.
What is a page number, paragraph or line number?
An author’s choice to tell a story from beginning to end is using this structure.
What is chronological order?
Plays that are written to be performed on stage fall into this genre.
What is a play?
This term means to look at the differences between two or more things.
What is contrast?
The Lottery and The Hate U Give both examine societal norms, but while The Lottery critiques conformity and tradition, The Hate U Give addresses this theme.
What is racial injustice?
After providing a quote, it’s important to do this to show how the evidence supports your answer.
What is analyze or explain?
In a cause and effect structure, the author explains how one event causes another to happen. "Effect" refers to this part.
What is the result or outcome?
This genre of movie is designed to scare or thrill the audience with suspenseful or frightening scenes.
What is horror?