ELA 6th Grade HCPS Semester 1 Exam Review Part 3

To cause someone to believe or do something through reasoning and argument.

Details show an author’s credibility or that a reader can trust the author

Details that include evidence, facts, or statistics that supports the author’s reasoning.

The alliteration is used to emphasize he was almost asleep when something made a tapping sound.

A span of time for literature is known as a .......

Source-based information including facts, figures, and details used to develop an argument.

Appealing to credibility, trustworthiness, ethics, or moral principles.

When comparing texts across time periods, what would a reader NOT examine?

What does it mean to use the idiom “out of the blue” to describe something?

Language used for descriptive effect to show or imply ideas indirectly (without having to say it)

Details show an author’s authority or expertise on the topic.

The personification is used to show that the speaker loves to dance.

The hyperbole describing yesterday as “years ago” is used to show how it feels like they have all lived a year in a day.

The ice cream shop across the street is always busy. This means the ice cream shop sells is delicious ice cream.

Appealing to emotion, whether positive or negative

Observations of patterns lead to the most likely conclusion

Details create an emotion to which readers/viewers can relate.

It’s dangerous to drive in the rain. It is raining now, so it would be dangerous to drive on the roads

Words and phrases used differently from their literal meaning.

A statement that something is true or factual although other people may not believe it.

To cause someone to believe or do something through reasoning and argument.

It is used to show that the speaker was calm and almost asleep when something made a tapping sound.

Appealing to logic or reason with facts, examples, observations, expert opinions, and reasoning.

Is the example personification or hyperbole?

Uses specific evidence, observations, or examples to support a general conclusionthat may be true

Taking a position on an issue that includes a series of reasons and evidence that build on one another to persuade.

In this sentence, the onomatopoeia is used to emphasize just how quiet it was without anyone talking or doing anything.

Is the example above personification or metaphor?

Strategies a writer or speaker uses to persuade others.

Comparative reading is reading texts about similar topics to compare SIMILARITIES and contrast DIFFERENCES.

What words are alliteration in the poem?

Line of thinking connecting the reasons a claim is true to the evidence presented.

Art of speaking or writing to persuade or influence people.

Starts with a general principle/idea which leads to a specific conclusion.

Grandparents all fall asleep early. All elderly people go to bed early.