Unit 4 Vocabulary

1. marking a text with notes and/or comments

• Annotating

• Expository Writing

• Inference

• Text structure

1. writing that develops and defends a position or debates a topic using logic and persuasion

• Author’s purpose

• Argumentative Writing

• Literary Analysis

1. the reason an author writes about a particular topic (e.g., to persuade, to entertain, to inform, to explain, to analyze, etc.); the reason an author includes particular details, features, or devices in a work

• Annotating-

• Author’s purpose

• Text structure

• Tone-

1. a style of composition that exposes or explains a topic using facts.

• Tone

• Text evidence

• Expository Writing

• Argumentative Writing

1. a logical guess made by connecting bits of information

• Literary Analysis

• Thesis

• Author’s purpose

• Inference

1. examination and evaluation of a literary work considering how the author used literary techniques to create meaning.

• Literary Analysis

• Text structure

• Expository Writing

• Thesis

1. paraphrased or directly quoted detail(s) from a text that supports a reader’s claim, thought, inference, or analysis about the text

• Author’s purpose

• Annotating

• Text evidence

• Text structure

1.  the way or pattern in which an author organizes ideas within a text

• text structure

• Annotating

• Text Evidence

• Literary Analysis

1. a statement or premise supported by arguments

• Text evidence

• Inference

• Tone

• Thesis

1. the author’s particular attitude, either stated or implied in writing

• Tone

• Inference

• Expository Writing

• Annotating