Quarter 2 Vocabulary

Author's Purpose

• The lesson of the text.

• The reason why an author wrote a text.

• The people who are reading the text.

Author's Message

• The lesson the author wanted to convey (share).

• The reason why they write.

• The skeleton of your essay.

Audience

• refers to the characters of the story.

• refers to the publishers.

• refers to the writers.

• refers to the group of people that the author intended the text to target.

A clear thesis is located where in an essay?

• It is located as the final, complex sentence at the end of the introduction.

• It is located at the end of the essay, in the conclusion.

• It is located as a topic sentence of a paragraph.

• It is located in the middle of a body paragraph.

A clear thesis addresses... in one complete sentence.

• The entire background of the essay.

• The main points of the essay (topics of each paragraph)

• The transition between each body paragraph.

Effective Supporting Evidence should have the following... (choose 3 answers!)

• should be your own quote.

• quotation marks.

• come from a credible source.

• should be embedded into your own sentence.

Pertinent Examples are accurate when you... (choose 2)

• support your claims with text evidence and YOU can analyze it's relevance.

• only give half of the story.

• connect it back to the topic sentence (your claim).

In what order does commentary(analysis) fit best in a body paragraph?

• Topic sentence (claim), Pertinent example, text evidence, and commentary (analysis).

• Pertinent example, text evidence, topic sentence (claim), and commentary (analysis).

• Topic sentence (claim), commentary (analysis), text evidence, and pertinent example.

• Commentary (analysis), text evidence, topic sentence, and pertinent example.

The goal of a conclusion is to...

• Only address 2 of 3 body paragraphs.

• Introduce you to the texts.

• Address your last and final point.

• Bring everything you talked about together into a final summary.

Influence means to...

• to directly tell someone to do something.

• to have an effect on a particular situation or person and the way that it develops.

• to stay passive and not do anything.