Academic Vocabulary #10 (Cumulative)

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What is a genre?

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A kind of text that has a specific purpose, for example, fiction is created to tell a story.

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Define fiction.

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Text that is not true and tells a story that the author has created.

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Non-fiction

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Text that tells you about real things, people, places, events, and information.

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What is text evidence?

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Details that you find in the text.

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Explain text structure.

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The way or pattern in which an author organizes ideas within a text.

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What is the author's purpose?

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The reason an author writes about a particular topic (e.g., to persuade, to entertain, to inform, to explain, to analyze, etc.).

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Message in a text

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The big idea or point the author is trying to tell the reader through the text.

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What is a selection?

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Literary pieces (e.g., articles, poems, and plays) that are curated for a specific purpose.

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What is the central idea?

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The main point of a piece of writing.

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anecdote

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A short narrative that relates an interesting or amusing incident, usually in order to make or support a larger point.