Nonfiction Signposts

Signposts Lesson and Review 10/1

Multiple Choice

What questions should you ask yourself when you see contrasts and contradictions?

• What is the contrast and/or contradiction and why does it matter?

• Does the character have a split personality?

• Why should I care?

Multiple Select

Fiction Signpost: A word or idea keeps showing up, repeated

• Contrasts & Contradictions

• Life Lesson

• Tough Questions

• Again & Again

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Fiction Signpost: The character has suddenly realizes or figures out something important

Multiple Choice

What questions should you ask yourself when you see extreme or absolute language?

• Why is author so biased?

• Why did the author say it like that?

• Did the author not have better words to use?

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In extensive tendrils of hot gas that span the otherwise empty chasms between galaxies, more properly known as the warm-hot intergalactic medium, or WHIM. - This is an example of what nonfiction signpost?