Nonfiction Quiz

What does it mean to provide evidence of something?

• support

• summary

• anecdote

• paraphrase

What is a conclusion reached based on clues, evidence, and reasoning?

author's clues + personal experience

• summary

• conclusion

• inference

• anecdote

a brief personal connection the author makes with the passage

• inference

• anecdote

• conclusion

• summary

a shorter version of the story that includes something from the beginning, something from the middle, and something from the end; meatball sandwich

• summary

• paraphrase

• inference

• conclusion

a shorter version of the summary

• anecdote

• support

• conclusion

• paraphrase

a statement that reiterates the central/main idea from the beginning, but is found at the end of the passage/story/essay

• support

• conclusion

• inference

• anecdote

important ideas throughout the passage that support the central message/main idea

• text structure

• key ideas

• conclusion

• anecdote

How does the author organize the information in the passage?

• text characteristics

• key idea

• conclusion

• text structure

What type of text structure shows that something happens because of something else?

• Cause and Effect

• Problem and Solution

• Compare and Contrast

• Chronological Order

• Descriptive

What type of text structure shows a problem that occurs and evidence that the problem has been solved?

• Descriptive

• Compare and Contrast

• Cause and Effect

• Chronological Order

• Problem and Solution