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Informational Text
Term | Definition |
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Information texts | tells fact and relate true stories |
central idea | what the passage is about |
summarizing | giving a short description of the central idea and major supporting details in your own words. |
author's purpose | to persuade, entertain, inform, explain |
analogy | a comparison between two things or idea Ex: comparing life to a journey |
anaphora | repetition at the beginning of a sentence |
repetition | repeating words and phrases |
rhetorical question | question asked to make a point, not to receive an answer. |
fact | statements that can be proved |
opinion | personal view that not everyone agrees on |
inference | educated guess based on facts and details |