Reading PPV (Purpose and Point of View)

Background

This includes information essential to understanding the author. A reader's experience with a literary work can be enhanced by knowing about the author's life and culture, also called the author's _______.

Detail

This is a piece of information that is used to support a main idea.

Rhetorical Strategy

This is a plan an author uses to effectively deliver the intended message in written work.

Implied

This is a suggested, but not stated, definition. It is an ___ definition.

Persuasive Appeal

This is a type of writing or speech that attempts to convince a reader to think or act in a particular manner.

Viewpoint

This is a writer's opinion or standpoint on an issue.

Perspective

This is a writer's or speaker's point of view about a particular subject, and is often influenced by their beliefs or by events in their lives.

Purpose

This is an author's intention, reason, or drive for writing the piece.

Interpretation

This is an explanation of the significance or meaning of a work.

Opinion

This is an expression of an author's personal belief. It is not something that can be proved to be true or false.

Generalization

This is forming a broad idea based on specific instances. Inductive reasoning

Inference

This is reading between the lines. It is taking something that you read and putting it together with something that you already know to make sense of what you read. You make an _____.

Prediction

This is the act of forecasting something that may (or may not) occur later.

Central Argument

This is the dominant and controlling argument.

Main Idea

This is the most important idea of a reading passage or presentation.

Point Of View

This is the perspective from which a story is told or information is provided. It is the way the author lets the readers see and hear the story or information; who tells the story.

Author's Purpose

This is the reason for creating written work.

Style

This is the way an author expresses ideas through the use of kinds of words, literary devices, and sentence structure.

Persuade

This is to convince.

Predict

This is to declare or say in advance.

Inform

This is to give facts, background, and other kinds of knowledge of a subject.

Conclusion

This is when you use pieces of information on a subject to base your opinion or make a decision. You draw a ________.

Persuasive Text

This type of text attempts to convince a reader to adopt a particular opinion or course of action.

Comprehend

To _____ is to understand the meaning of a text or presentation.

Evaluate

To judge, place a value on, or rank a piece of writing is to ____ it.

Summarize

To restate briefly is to ____.

Support

To strengthen or prove an argument or idea by providing facts, details, examples and other information is to ___ it.

Supporting Evidence

These are the facts or details that back up a main idea, theme, or thesis.

Moral

A theme of a passage, story, novel, poem, or drama that readers can apply to life is called a ____.

Controlling

The _____ idea of a passage is the idea which is dealt with and recurs throughout the passage.

Central

The key point made in a passage is called its ____ idea.

Persuasive Techniques

These are techniques used to convince. They include repetition, sentence variety, understatement, and overstatement.

Entertain

When a piece of writing is meant to amuse its readers, we say its purpose is to ____.

Relevant

When something closely relates to a subject it is called ____ to the subject.