03/06 Quiz

What is a summary?

• A detailed description of the story.

• A short retelling of the story.

• Restating the question in your own words.

• Rewriting what the author said in your own words.

What is paraphrasing?

• Rewriting in your own words.

• A short retelling of the story

• Summarizing the main points of a text.

• Replacing words with synonyms to make the text more interesting.

What is the best way to summarize a fictional text?

• Writing as muchh as you can

• Explaining the climax in detail.

• Somebody, Wanted, But, So, Then

• Who, Wanted, But, Therefore, Consequently

What's author's purpose?

• To entertain the reader

• How the reader views the narrator.

• To persuade the reader to take action

• The reason the author wrote the passage.

What is a central message?

• The reason why the author wrote the text.

• The main idea the author is trying to get across to the reader.

• The primary theme of the text.

• The underlying moral of the story.

Match the following

• The main character of the story

• Then

• The problem that is keeping the main charcter from their goal

• Wanted

• The resolution- How the story ends.

• So

• How the main charcter overcomes the problem

• Somebody

• The goal of the main character

• But