Perspectives
Literary Terms
Analyzing Text
Comparing & Understanding Text
100

Looking at something from the past to understand its impact or contribution to the present is known as this type of perspective.

What is Historical Perspective?

100

Stories created from an author’s imagination fall under this category.

What is Fiction?

100

To examine something carefully, as in studying it in detail, is to do this.

What is analyze?

100

This refers to how ideas are the same.

What is Compare?

200

Looking at something from the shared values or norms of a distinct group of people is this type of perspective.

What is cultural perspective?

200

This is the literary category used to classify literary texts.

What is genre?

200

The act of reducing a text to its main idea and key supporting details is called this.

What is summarize?

200

This type of text uses more than one mode, such as images, sound, and words, to convey meaning.

What is Multimodal Text?

300

This perspective looks at something through a particular social or cultural standard, often influenced by social norms and values.

What is ethnic perspective?

300

This is a patterned form of writing that typically contains rhyme and rhythm.

What is Poetry?

300

This is the act of putting something into one's own words to clarify a statement using simpler words.

What is paraphrase?

300

This refers to how ideas are different.

What is Contrast?

400

This perspective looks at something from a viewpoint that considers its relevance to all peoples of the world.

What is global perspective?

400

This type of text is based on true and proven facts.

What is Nonfiction Text?

400

This is the central idea or main point of a text.

What is Main Idea?

400

This refers to the letters and words we use when communicating in writing.

What is Alphabetic Text?