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Explains examples of text that supports the author’s purpose.
o What is the author’s purpose in writing the passage?
o Which addition to the passage could best support the author’s purpose?
o Read the sentence from the poem and explain how the poet’s use of personification
help to communicate an idea in the poem.
Draws conclusions about connotations of words.
o Read the sentence from the passage and explain what the word “___” means as used in
the sentence.
o Read the sentence from the passage and explain which feeling is being suggested by the
use of the word “___.”
Supports generalizations by citing evidence from text.
o What does the character most likely do at the end of the passage after ___?
o Read the statement from the passage and explain the significance of this statement
using information from the passage to support your explanation.
o Which sentence from the passage best supports the generalization ___?
Analyze how literary form influences the meaning of text.
o How does the author’s use of fiction as a literary form influence the meaning of the
passage?
Compares characteristics of fiction and literary nonfiction.
o Which characteristic of the passage best indicates to readers that it is fiction rather than
informational nonfiction?
Analyzes and/or compares connections between texts.
o In what way are the poem and the passage similar?
Compares the characteristics that distinguish narrative, poetry, and drama.
o How does the reader know that the passage is narrative prose rather than drama?
Interprets and/or analyzes the following elements of literature: character, setting, plot, tone,
style, theme, mood, and point of view.
o Which word best describes the character in the passage?
o Which sentence best describes the relationship of the setting to the plot in the passage?
o Which sentence from the passage best represents the conflict?
o Which universal theme is most reflected in the passage?
o How does the author’s use of style help to create the mood of the passage?
o Why is an omniscient narrator most likely used to describe events in the passage?
Explains literary elements and devices in fiction, including poetry and drama.
o Read the sentence from the passage and explain what the effect is of the imagery used
to describe ___.
o What is the rhyme scheme of the first stanza of the poem?
o Which stage direction from the passage best reveals insight into the character’s
personality?
Explains author’s use of key words and phrases to inform and influence the reader.
o Which statement best describes how the author’s use of the phrase “___” influences
the reader?