Keystone Terms - Extra

Information that consists of descriptions and explanations that are created after a historical event has already taken place; articles, books, theories

• Secondary Sources

• Primary Sources

• Tertiary Sources

Eyewitness accounts of history. They include letters, diaries, speeches, and interviews.

• Secondary Sources

• Primary Sources

• Tertiary Sources

To arrive at a conclusion on the basis of context clues and prior knowledge is to...

• Imply

• Infer

• Interrogate

• Explain

What is an opinion?

• One person's thoughts, subjective, impossible to prove to be true

• Giving human qualities to a non-human object

• objective and verifiable; established using evidence collected through research

• When the author directly states the character's personality

What is a fact?

• the narrator speaking from his or her point of view

• Objective and verifiable; established using evidence collected through research

• Subjective, impossible to prove to be true

• two consecutive lines of poetry that rhyme

Giving credit to the authors of source information (Holdren, p. 136)

• Footnotes

• Heading

• Citations

• Annotations

What is the name for elements of any text other than the writing itself which helps you locate and learn information (diagrams, maps, titles, captions, etc.)

• Organization Patterns

• Text features

• Helpful Hints

• Examples

What genre is a story that includes dialogue and stage directions?

• Play

• Biography

• Folktales

• Autobiograpy

What genre is a story including a character's conflict and resolution?

• Narrative

• Biography

• Historical Fiction

• Non-Fiction

What genre is passages written about history, but they are not true?

• Narrative

• Fiction

• Historical Fiction

• Non-Fiction