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What are supporting details?
What is the point of view of a story?
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What is the point of view of a story?
the writer's way of deciding who is telling the story to whom.
fiction
journal entry
fact
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What are supporting details?
explain
fact
provide information to clarify, prove, or explain the main idea.
opinion
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What is Cause and Effect?
conflict
the relationship between two events or situations
clues
the result
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What is compare and contrast?
similarities, and contrasting is showing differences between two things
theme of story
only differences
only similarities
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What is a paragraph?
first person
a topic sentence, details and a conclusion.
claim
conclusion
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What is an
"antagonist ?"
main idea
villain
hero
character
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What is a "stanza?"
Stanzas can have regular rhyme and metrical schemes
poem
words
lines
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What is the setting of a story?
weather
feelings
environment
the time, duration, and place an author chooses to write about.
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What is a " poem"?
pattern
no rhyming
meaning of words
A poem is a piece of writing that relies on rhyme
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What is a subheading?
topic sentence
bolded words
a mini-headline or text that is found under the main headline
a paragraph
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What are quotations?
paragraph
claim
passage
a group of words taken from a text or speech and repeated by someone
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What is a summary of a short story?
short story, Brief fictional prose narrative
long text
two sentences
fictional only
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What is a " Protagonist?"
setting
main character
meaning of the word
illustration
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What is authors mood of the story?
mood of setting
descriptive words
feelings of character
the overall atmosphere or feeling of a piece of writing
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What is a theme?
main idea
supporting idea
the author is trying to convey — in other words, the central idea
text evidence
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What is a claim in a story?
topic sentence
main parts of a story
heading
A claim is the main argument of an essay
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What does it mean to "infer"?
subtitle
a conclusion reached on the basis of evidence and reasoning.
subheading
main idea
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What is an expository passage?
idea
used to teach and explain information in an objective way.
subjective
conclusion
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What is a Venn Diagram?
illustration that uses overlapping circles
circles
squares
rectangles
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What is author's purpose?
his reason for or intent in writing.
autobiography
biography
background story
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What is a persuasive essay?
conclusion
a fact
attempt to get the reader's side and win an argument
your opinion
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What is a " homophone?"
similar words
same meanings
same pronunciation but different meanings and origins
different words
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What is a biography?
a person's picture
a person's phonenumber
a person's birthdate
a usually written history of a person's life
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What is the main idea?
authors point of view
authors fact
the author's message about the topic.
authors statement
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What is a caption?
phrases
a brief description accompanying an illustration
a title
an illustration only
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What is the "tone" of a story?
expression of ideas
the expression of the author's attitude.
expression of language
expression of thoughts
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What is Context Clues?
hard words
easy words
hints that the author gives to help define a difficult or unusual word.
clues about the text
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What is a "phrase?"
antagonist
difficult words
no words
put into a particular form of words.
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What is onomatopoeia?
a word that actually looks like the sound it makes
a character trait
a easy word
a difficult word
