The Magic Marker Mystery

A part of the text that is not the main body of the text including table of contents, glossary, headings, or visual elements. (pictures, maps, charts, diagrams)

• connotation

• text feature

• homophone

• prediction

A persuasive technique that appeals to logic and reasoning.

• logos

• ethos

• culprit

• pathos

A logical guess about what future events might happen in a story, what information a text might provide, or what points an author might make in an argument.

• text feature

• connotation

• denotation

• prediction

a person who has done a crime; criminal

• antonym

• culprit

• confirm

• synonym

determined; certain

• antonym

• adamant

• synonym

• culprit

to deserve or be worthy of

• rhetoric

• culprit

• adamant

• merit

a word that means the opposite as another word

• synonym

• homonym

• antonym

• rhetoric

the art of speaking and writing persuasively

• denotation

• annotation

• rhetoric

• theme

a word that means the same as another word.

• synonym

• antonym

• homonym

• homophone

to establish validity; to verify, to prove

• culprit

• synonym

• presume

• confirm