When an author includes important information by highlighting through labels, headings, pictures/photographs, captions, special font, subheadings, etc this is called what?
Text features
Word choice
Figurative language
Text structure
What is the author's purpose: It's New! It's Refreshing! It's Slurpy Soda! This is the best soda in the world! If you drink this you will jump higher, run faster, and be smarter in school. Try one today!
Persuade
The classroom was a zoo. OR My teacher is a dragon are examples of what?
Simile
Alliteration
Metaphor
Metaphor
Seven swans swam swiftly is an example of what?
Alliteration
Simile
Hyperbole
Metaphor
What do the two Es in P.I.E.E.D stand for?
Entertain and Explain
What does P.I.E.E.D stand for?
Persuade, Inform, Entertain, Explain, and Describe
What is the author's purpose: If an author wrote a book with information about colonial times.
Inform
What does the I in P.I.E.E.D stand for?
Inform
When the author tries to engage the reader and make them wonder they are using what in the text?
Graphic feature
Dialogue
Questions
Voice
What does the D in P.I.E.E.D stand for?
Describe
What does the P in P.I.E.E.D stand for?
Persuade
What is imagery? Or give an example of imagery.
Painting a picture with words. Example: Hot sweet apple pie with cold vanilla ice cream.
If the author gave directions on how to ride a bike what would the author's purpose be?
Explain
My backpack weighs a ton! OR I could eat a horse are an example of what?
Onomatopoeia
Hyperbole
Simile
Hyperbole
Pop, slam, bang, crash, splash are all examples of what?
Alliteration
Simile
Onomatopoeia
Hyperbole
An author gives you step by step directions on how to make a fort what would be the author's purpose?
Explain
If the author's piece of writing talks about sight, sound, smell, hearing, taste what would be the author's purpose?
Describe
What is the author's purpose: At Grafton Middle School, conferences will be held on Tuesday afternoon and all day Thursday. Students will still have school on Tuesday and conferences will start at 4.
Inform
The author writes something the reader will enjoy.
Entertain
If the author has a fiction piece of writing that includes characters and a plot, what would the author's purpose be
Entertain
Word choice, dialogue, questions, figurative language, structure, and text features can all do what?
They all deepen the reader's understanding of main idea.
If I were to write a passage about sweet, warm apple pie with cold vanilla ice cream the purpose of me writing that would be to do what?
Describe
An author writes an article on why everyone should vote. What would be the author's purpose?
Persuade
This house is as clean as a whistle. OR They fought like cats and dogs are examples of what?
Alliteration
Metaphor
Onomatopoeia
Simile
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