What is an element or demand of Expository texts?

To use text features and interpret graphics

What is the idea or demand of Drama?

Understand how dialogue portrays character, plot, and theme

What is the purpose of Poetry?

To experience rich language and emotion

Central message of a work of literature

The sequence of events in a story

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What is an element or demand of Expository texts?
Follow flashbacks
To use text features and interpret graphics
Follow stucture
Understand stage directions
2
A person or force that opposes the protagonist in a story is called the
Antagonist
Memoir
Metamorphisis
Subject
3
Functional documents...
visual clues that help readers locate info quickly
examine a specific issue and solutions to it
tell you how to do something
present key idea of a topic
4
What is the idea or demand of Drama?
Remember important factual details
Recognize missing information
Evaluate and judge logic
Understand how dialogue portrays character, plot, and theme
5
What is the purpose of Poetry?
To make decisions
To gather information
To experience rich language and emotion
To learn how to do something
6
What is theme?
A humorous use of words that are similar in sound.
Central message of a work of literature
Use of a word that imitates or suggests the sound
A regular pattern of stressed syllables in a line of poetry
7
Techniques used to emphasize sounds in writing are called
Voice
Suspense
Simile
Sound devices
8
Highest point of emotion or conflict...
Climax
Metaphor
Myth
Resolution
9
What is the purpose of Literary Nonfiction?
To make decisions
To gain information or insight
To learn how to do something
To perform
10
Words or phrases that cause strong emotions are called
Premise
Loaded terms
Caricature
Logic
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What is the purpose of Fiction?
To be entertained
To make decisions
To perform
To learn how to do something
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What is Plot?
Words of a song with regular rhyme scheme
A figure of speech in which an object is given human traits
Emotional quality of a story or poem
The sequence of events in a story
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Which of the following is NOT an example of Literary language and devices?
Imagery
Idiom
Hyperbole
Consonance

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