ENGLISH 8

What is the author's purpose?

• improperly forward or bold
• devout or heartfelt
• It is the "big idea" of the text or a part of the text. It is what the author wants the reader to learn or take away from reading the text. There may be more than one message in a text.
• the reason he or she wrote the passage. An author may have more than one reason for writing a text.

What are the five reasons that authors write?

• difficult to handle or use because of size or weight
• by providing facts about a topic.
• To entertain, inform, persuade, teach, and describe
• The moral, or lesson, that stories like fables are trying to teach readers.

How would an author entertain?

• devout or heartfelt
• the way authors organize information in the text.
• by writing an interesting or funny story or poem.
• take delight in

How would an author inform?

• feeling great rapture or delight
• by providing facts about a topic.
• Comparing and contrasting
• by writing an interesting or funny story or poem.

How would an author persuade its readers?

• Move ahead steadily
• devout or heartfelt
• by trying to convince others to believe or do something.
• bestow or expend profusely

How would an author teach a life lesson?

• by showing lessons that characters learn in stories.
• feeling great rapture or delight
• by trying to convince others to believe or do something.
• with strained or eager attention

How would an author describe a process or procedure

• devout or heartfelt
• breastbone
• by listing steps or giving directions.
• To entertain, inform, persuade, teach, and describe

What are text structures?

• urge on; cause to act
• by showing lessons that characters learn in stories.
• (v.) walk leisurely and with no apparent aim
• the way authors organize information in the text.

If an author wants to inform readers about the characteristics of cats, he or she might organize the information by _____________________, or showing the similarities and differences, between house cats and wild cats

• It is the "big idea" of the text or a part of the text. It is what the author wants the reader to learn or take away from reading the text. There may be more than one message in a text.
• (v.) walk leisurely and with no apparent aim
• Comparing and contrasting
• by listing steps or giving directions.

If an author wants to entertain the readers with a funny story about five friends and their pet cats, he or she might write a _______ or a _________ with characters and a plot structure.

• the way authors organize information in the text.
• difficult to handle or use because of size or weight
• by writing an interesting or funny story or poem.
• poem; Story