SOL Review of Terms

Author's purpose: to teach you something about a topic. It's often full of facts.

• explain

• entertain

• inform

• persuade

Author's Purpose: written for you to enjoy reading.

• explain

• entertain

• inform

• persuade

Author's Purpose: writing to convince you to do something.

• persuade

• explain

• inform

• entertain

Author's Purpose: writing to tell you how to do something.

• inform

• entertain

• explain

• persuade

If you are looking for ways that things are alike, you are ____________.

• comparing

• explaining

• contrasting

• entertaining

If you are looking for ways that are different, you are __________.

• comparing

• contrasting

• persuading

• explaining

Letters added at the end of the word are called ____________.

• prefix

• suffix

• problem

• setting

Letters added to the beginning of a word are called __________.

• prefix

• suffix

• quote

• main idea

The order in which events take place (ex.-first, second, then, finally, and lastly).

• context clues

• quote

• time order

• rhyme

A person's exact words...

• prefix

• quote

• suffix

• poem