Informational Text Benchmarks Practice

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Informational Texts

Learning Target: I will be able to master my understanding of Central Idea, Rhetorical Appeals, Rhetorical Devices, Author's Purpose, and Logical Reasoning

Match

Match each Purpose with the correct Description

• Inform

• Entertain

• Persuade

Facts

Statististics

Quotes

Nonfiction

Fiction

Amuse

Tells Story

Convince Reader

Opinions

Reasons

• Facts

  Statististics

  Quotes

  Nonfiction

• Fiction

  Amuse

  Tells Story

• Convince Reader

  Opinions

  Reasons

Multiple Choice

To make a delicious New England pit, proceed as follows: take some water and flour; then construct a bullet-proof dough. Make this into a disk-shaped object. Dry it for a couple of days in a mild temperature. Pour on stewed dried apples and slabs of citron; leave it in a safe place until it petrifies. Serve cold at breakfast and invite your mother-in-law.

Purpose of text?

• Describe New England pie

• Inform the steps of making a pie

• Make fun of (satirize) New England cooking

• Persuade the reader to buy New England pie

Match

Match the logical reasoning with the correct definition

• Abductive Reasoning

• Deductive Reasoning

• Inductive Reasoning

a probable conclusion from what you know

Conclusion guaranteed true.

conclusion from observations

• a probable conclusion from what you know

• Conclusion guaranteed true.

• conclusion from observations

Dropdown

“The waitress must have noticed I wasn’t enjoying my meal. That’s probably why she offered to get me something else to eat instead.”​ What type of Reasoning:

Select answer

Dropdown

The cost of goods is $1.00. The cost of labor to manufacture the item was $0.50. The sales price of the item was $5.00. Results from a conducted ​

Select answer

study shows, the item always provides a good profit for the stores selling it. What type of Reasoning?

Dropdown

We have free healthcare here in Canada. This is why lots of Americans move here. My neighbor recently located from Washington. She has to have surgery soon, but she's not stressing about cost because she has free healthcare. ​

Select answer

Multiple Choice

The Central Idea of a Text is:

• The main topic discussed in a text and the mood it gives reader

• The background of the subject and the author's opinion

• The summary of the text.

• The main topic discussed and the point(s) made about it throughout the entire text.

Multiple Choice

It is often said that lightning never strikes twice in the same place, but this isn’t true. Go ask the forest rangers. Rangers who spend their summers as firefighters will tell you that every thundershower brings several bolts of lightning to their lookout stations.

What's the Central Idea?

• Lightning strikes every time there is a storm.

• Lightning does strike twice in the same place

• Forest rangers spend the summer as firefighters.

• Lightning never strikes twice in the same place.

Multiple Choice

People often refer to taxes in terms of their being much too high. In reality, they are probably even higher than you think, because in addition to the federal income tax we are now studying, there are many other Federal, State, and local taxes, including sales taxes, inheritance taxes, state income taxes, personal property taxes, real estate taxes, and others. These are just some of the most obvious ones.

Central Idea?

• Taxes are much too high.

• We pay more taxes than we may realize.

• Inheritance taxes and real estate taxes are unfair.

• Some taxes are hidden.

Multiple Choice

Advertising affects our lives everyday. Brand names are common household words. We start each day using the toothpaste, soap, and breakfast foods promoted by advertisers. Ads have made the cars we drive signs of our success. Our choices of food, dress, and entertainment are swayed by ads. Not one aspect of American life is untouched by advertising.

What is the Central Idea?

• Advertising includes lots of options.

• Driving a car means you are successful

• American offers various types of brands to consumers.

• Our lives are impacted by advertisements everyday.

Multiple Choice

• I'm not just invested in this community — I love every building, every business, every hard-working member of this town.

What appeal is used?

• Pathos

• Logos

• Ethos

Multiple Choice

“The doctor’s many years of experience show he is qualified to prescribe a treatment that will produce the best result.”

What appeal is used?

• Logos

• Pathos

• Ethos

Multiple Choice

“Of all the studies in the last decade, none recommend that this is an effective treatment for losing weight.”

What appeal is used?

• Logos

• Ethos

• Pathos

presents opposing ideas side by side or close by each other.

Antithesis

a rhetorical device in which a single word, often a verb, governs two or more words

Zeugma

Rhetorical Devices

Irony

​Verbal Irony: a person says one thing, but means the opposite.

Situational Irony: outcome is the opposite of what's expected

Dramatic Irony: audience/reader knows something a character doesn't

Match

Match the following:

• Zeugma

• Antithesis

• Verbal Irony

• Situational Irony

She broke his car and his heart.

Less calories; more taste

During a storm: "What a pleasant day"

A marriage counselor files for divorce.

• She broke his car and his heart.

• Less calories; more taste

• During a storm: "What a pleasant day"

• A marriage counselor files for divorce.