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Nonfiction
Drama
Persuasive Text
Informational Text
Poetry
100
use of authority instead of evidence (trust me I’m a doctor)
What is false authority?
100
details in a paragraph or larger piece of text that tell you more about the main idea
What is supporting detail?
100
a true piece of information
What is a fact?
100
a category of literature, characterized by similarities in form, style, or subject matter.
What is a genre?
100
the way a poem looks on a page
What is structure
200
the story of a person’s life written by that person
What is autobiography?
200
the use of different techniques to support meaning, idea, or feeling in a story
What is stylistic element?
200
evidence that is given from the text and can be quoted
What is textual evidence
200
a persuasive technique where the author uses imperfect reasons
What is faulty reasoning?
200
words that sound like what they mean (BOOM!)
What is an onomatopoeia?
300
a writing that deals with a specific period in a person’s life (memory)
What is a memoir?
300
a conclusion reached on the basis of evidence and reasoning
What is an inference?
300
information that shows how much there is of something (graphs, charts)
What is quantitative information?
300
a genre that deals specifically with stories that were initially oral and were written down at a later date.
What is traditional literature?
300
musical quality created by the alternation of accented and unaccented syllables
What is rhythm?
400
the author does not directly state the reason for writing
What is implied purpose?
400
narrator only knows the thoughts and feelings of one character
What is third person limited?
400
a situation in writing in which two or more genres have something in common
What is connections?
400
the act of using another person's words or ideas without giving credit to that person
What is plagiarism?
400
the way the lines are arranged into groups
What is a stanza?
500
a statement that leads the audience to believe something that is not true
What is misleading statement?
500
creating ideas and understandings by reflecting on a text and forming a conclusion
What is synthesize?
500
the part of a persuasive text where the author gives their thought
What is an opinion statement
500
an opinion or decision that is based on careful thought
What is a judgement?
500
the repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of a word
What is alliteration?