7th Grade Georgia Milestone Practice Part 2

the attitude of an author about a subject or an audience

• mood

• tone

• characterization

• plot

the way in which a passage is structured

• organization

• tone

• mood

• plot diagram

the order in which a series of events happened

• cause and effect

• compare and contrast

• Chronological order

• problem and solution

a relationship in which one thing causes another thing to happen

• cause and effect

• problem and solution

• chronological order

• compare and contrast

analyzes the relationships between ideas in a passage

• Cause and effect

• chronological order

• problem and solution

• compare and contrast

the author’s intention for his or her writing

• author's point of view

• author's purpose

• author's tone

• author's mood

The opinion of the author

• author's point of view

• author's purpose

• author's mood

• author's tone

the main argument made by the author

• evidence

• claim

• counterclaim

• reason

A reasonable argument that opposes or disagrees with another claim

• reason

• claim

• evidence

• counterclaim

When an author holds a strong opinion or belief about his or her topic

• claim

• counterclaim

• bias

• fact