Information reports
What is the main purpose of an information report?
What is inform or present facts about a subject?
What is the main purpose of persuasive texts?
What is to convince or persuade the reader to agree with the writer's point of view?
Fix the sentence: "She runned to the store quickly."
What is "She ran to the store quickly?"
What is a simile?
What is a figure of speech that compares two things using "like" or "as"?
What is the longest river in the world?
What is the Nile River?
Name two features commonly found in an information report.
What are headings and subheadings, technical vocabulary?
Name one persuasive technique used in persuasive writing.
What is the use of emotional language, rhetorical questions, or repetition?
Fix the sentence: "Him and I went to the library."
What is "He and I went to the library?"
Identify the technique used in the line: "The wind whispered through the trees."
What is personification?
Which country is both a continent and a nation?
What is Australia?
What point of view is typically used in an information report?
What is third person?
True or False: Persuasive texts always present both sides of an argument equally.
What is false?
What makes a sentence complex?
What is having one independent clause and one or more dependent clauses?
What is the term for a recurring theme or idea in a poem?
What is a motif?
Name the largest desert in the world.
What is the Antarctic Desert?
Information reports are written in past tense.
What is false?
What is a call to action in persuasive writing?
What is a statement urging the reader to take specific action?
True or False: An adverbial phrase can only be one word.
What is false?
Define alliteration and give an example.
What is the repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words? Example: "Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers."
Which city is known as the "Big Apple"?
Where is New York City?
In an information report, how should the facts be organized?
What is in clear, logical sections or categories?
Give an example of an ethos appeal in persuasive writing.
What is citing credible sources or using moral arguments to build trust?
Identify the adverbial phrase in the following sentence: "Despite the rain, she ran with great speed toward the finish line."
What is "with great speed toward the finish line?"
What is an ode?
What is a type of lyrical poem that expresses praise or admiration for a person, object, or event?
What is the capital city of Canada?
Where is Ottawa?