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TNReady English I and II reading informational texts overview quiz quiz

12questions. Pick an answer and you'll see why right away.

  1. What is the central idea of an informational text?

  2. What is an objective summary?

  3. In an argument, what is the difference between a reason and evidence?

  4. An author writes, 'Everyone knows this is best, so anyone who disagrees does not care.' What is the flaw?

  5. An author describing a polluted river uses words like 'choked', 'poisoned', and 'dying'. What does this reveal?

  6. What do the three rhetorical appeals ethos, pathos, and logos target?

  7. A passage presents a flood and then traces homes lost, roads closed, and economic harm. Which structure is this?

  8. On the EOC, the harder text-structure question asks what?

  9. What makes an inference valid rather than a guess?

  10. On a two-part evidence item, what must be true of Part A and Part B?

  11. When comparing paired texts, what should you compare?

  12. What does it mean to synthesize across two texts?