Everything Bagel
Everything in a text relates to this item.
What is topic?
This term refers to the main point or underlying message of a text.
What is central idea?
This verb means to quote a source in your writing, often to support an argument.
What is cite?
This refers to specific details, quotes, or examples from a text that support an argument or answer.
What is text evidence?
This type of meaning can be metaphorical but never factual.
What is figurative?
This term refers to the plain, literal meaning of a word, nothing more, nothing less.
What is denotation?
This term describes information that is stated clearly and directly.
What is explicit?
This refers to the actual, real, exact, and factual meaning of a word or text, without interpretation.
What is literal?
This term refers to the emotional association attached to a word.
What is connotation?
This term refers to ideas or meaning that are suggested by the text.
What is implicit?
The author uses this literary device in their play: In Act One, Scene One, a phone flashlight blinds Moira for a moment. In Act Three, Scene Five, an explosion surprises her, destroying her eyesight forever.
What is foreshadowing?
This term describes what the author thinks or feels about the subject or audience, expressed in their words only.
What is tone?
This term refers to the situation, background information, or setting around an event, idea, statement, word, or text.
What is context?
This term captures the emotions a reader experiences with a text.
What is mood?
This is a logical conclusion based on evidence and reasoning, not direct statements.
What is an inference?
This describes the way an author uses language, including sentence structure and word choice, to make their writing formal, conversational, technical, legalistic, etc.
What is style?
This term refers to the distinctive personality or perspective that comes through in an author's writing.
What is voice?
This is what you get when one comedian slaps another and the slapped one says, "Thanks, I needed that."
What is verbal irony?
This literary element represents the central and universal lesson, message, or point in a work of a fiction.
What is theme?
This one-word term describes the main argument or position taken by a writer about the main topic.
What is a thesis?
When the fires station is burning, it is an example of this.
What is situational irony?
This is something you should always ask yourself when reading about news on social media.
What is "what is the author's purpose?"
This is a complete sentence that articulates a story's central idea.
What is a thematic statement?
This type of sentence outlines the course of a text. For example, "Mrs. Banks’s afternoon reading takes her on an adventure far beyond the comforting snow-bound walls of her home to the jungles of Papua New Guinea, the deserts of Africa, and the swamps of Southeast Asia."
What is a thesis statement?
"Stench," "cheap," "ambitious," "lonely," "radical," and "scheme" are words that have this kind of meaning.
What is a connotation?