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Expository Essay
Vocab Words for LA Expository Quiz
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Text Features | Elements that allow you to see the most important ideas |
| Title | Reveals topic of article |
| Subheadings | Highlight what each section is about |
| Sidebar | Provides more information |
| Bulleted List | Presents info in an easy to read format |
| Topic | Piece of nonfiction which the txt is about |
| Main Idea | Most important idea writer wants to share |
| Topic Sentence | Where main idea is stated, usually 1st or last sentence in a paragraph |
| Supporting Details | Support for main idea |
| Infer | Assume |
| Suspense | A feeling of growing tension and excitement felt by the reader |
| Mood | THe feeling or atmosphere that a writer creates for the reader by using descriptive words, imagery, and figurative language |
| Tone | The author's attutude toward his or her subject |
| Verbal Irony | When a person says one thing but means another, or when what is said turns out to be true in a manner different that what the speaker meant |
| Dramatic Irony | THe reader or viewer knows something that a character does not know |
| Situational Irony | A contrast between what a reader or character expects and what actually exisits or happens |