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1
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He is the Greek god of sky, lightning and thunder. Who is he?

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Zeus

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He is the Greek god of the sea, earthquakes, storms, and horses. Who is he?

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poseidon

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He is the god of the Underworld, which is the home of the dead. Who is he?

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Hades

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She is the wife of Zeus and the goddess of marriage & birth. Who is she?

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hera

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He is god of war, battlelust, courage and civil order. Who is he?

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Ares

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She is the Olympian goddess of wisdom and war and the adored patroness of the city of Athens. Who is she

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Athena

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She is the Greek goddess associated with love, beauty, pleasure, passion and procreation. Who is she?

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Aphrodite

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She is the goddess of vegetation, especially grain, and the wife of Hades, with whom she rules the Underworld. Who is she

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Persephone

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He is the twin brother of Artemis. He was the god of healing, medicine, archery, music, and poetry. Who is he?

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apollo

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He is the god of fire, metalworking, stone masonry, forges and the art of sculpture. Who is he?

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hephaestus

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She is the goddess of the hearth and one of the 12 Olympian deities. Who is she?

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Hestia

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She is the goddess of wild animals, the hunt, and vegetation and of chastity and childbirth. Who is she?

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Artemis

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how can studying mythological stories help us?

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Studying these stories from the past helps us learn about the human experiences we have today.

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14
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who did mother earth gaia gave birth to?

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uranus and pontus

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what did uranus felt and what did he do? when his wife gaia gave birth to monsters, titans and hecantoncheries

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uranus felt disguted, he locked them up away to his uncle in the underworld tartarus.

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16
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who was the youngest child that gaia and uranus had?

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cronus

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17
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when cronus wounded up his father, his fathers’ blood gave birth to what?

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the giants, the furies and meliai(tree people)

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what are the things that cronus did while uranus was wounded

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he took away the titans and cyclops from imprisonment, he took advantage of the situation and claimed the universe as his own and to be the new king of gods and godesses

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The miliea gave birth to what?

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first humans

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20
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who did cronus marry?

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Rhea

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21
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Who were the children of rhea and cronus?

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zeus, hestia, demeter, hades, hera and poseidon

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what was the reason on why cronus ate his children?

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because he was thinking that they might overthrown him too, like what he did to his father uranus.

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23
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what did cronus do while each of his children was born?

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to eat them

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24
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who was the child that rhea kept?

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zeus

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25
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what did rhea use as a substitute for her last child to be that was supposed to be eaten by cronus

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2 stoned that were wrapped in swaddling-clothes

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26
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where did rhea hide zeus?

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in a cave

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27
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who did zeus chose to marry and why?

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metis, because metis was the wisest being that ever lived

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28
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what was the potion that metis gave to zeus?

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a potion that would force cronus to vomit up the children that he swalloded

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29
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how did zeus made cronus to drink the potion?

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zeus camouflaged as someone who gives drinks to cronus, he used that opportunity to slip the potion in cronus’ drink

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30
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what were the things that cronus vomited when he drank the drink with potion?

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2 stones and zeus’ siblings

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31
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what did zeus do while cronus was unconsious?

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he hurried down to the underworld and killed the dragon that guarded the entrance then he released the cyclops and titans from imprisonment

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32
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where was the place that they lived in?

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mount olympus

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33
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what were the gifts that the cyclops gave?

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for zues, the lighting bulb. for hades, helmet of invisibility. for poseidon a triumph

34
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who won the war between the titans and olympians?

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olympians

35
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what was the punishment that the olympians gave to atlas?

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to hold the heavens

36
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what happened to the other titans? and what creature guarded them

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they were locked up in the underworld, guarded by hecantoncheries

37
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how did zeus divided the universe based on the attributes of the gods?

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zeus, for the sky hades for the underworld poseidon for the ocean

38
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Describe daedalus

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a skillful worker in wood and stone

39
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what are the things that daedalus invented?

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glue, a stone palace for aegeus, renovated the temple of athena that is located it the rocky hill in the middle of the city

40
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what is the name of daedalus’ nephew?

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Perdix

41
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Describe perdix

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A fast learner, supprassed daedalus’ knowledge on crafts

42
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what are the things that perdix invented?

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saw, chisel, wheel for pottering

43
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what did daedalus think and feel when perdix surpassed him?

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daedalus thought that if perdix will continue to be more wiser than him, he had a thought that he will be forgotten and perdix will be remembered

44
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what did daedalus do to perdix when he felt envious of him?

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he told perdix to hang a scaffold at the edge of the ricky cliff then perdix obeyed daedalus and pushed him

45
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who witnessed perdix’s fall? and what did that person do?

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Athena, she turned perdix into an partridge

46
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What did the people of athens decide to do to daedalus? What is the first punishment that the people of athens thought of at first? What changed their mind for doing that?

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At first they thought of giving him a death penalty but they remembered the things that daedalus did for their city so they decided to just kick him out of the city and to never let him return.

47
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Who did daedalus took when he left the city? Where was he headed to?

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His son Icarus, to the island of crete

48
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Who is the king of crete? And what did he told daedalus when he welcomed him to their Island?

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King Minos, he told him that he can get rich and honor from their island if he would stay and practice his craft. Just like what he did on Athens

49
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What was poseidon’s command to King Minos? Why did poseidon got mad? And what was the exact punishment that Poseidon gave to King Minos?

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Poseidon commanded king minos to sacrifice a bull every year. King Minos decided to keep the bull and did not offer the bull to Poseidon. Poseidon emplaced a curse on King Minos’ wife pasiphae, the curse was making Pasiphae to fall in love with a bull.

50
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Who did Pasiphae asked for help when she wanted to consummate her love with the bull? And how did that person helped her?

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Daedalus. He made a machine that is shaped like a bull that Pasiphae could hide.

51
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What happened to Pasiphae after she consummated her love to the bull? Why did King Minos got angry to daedalus?

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Pasiphae got pregnant. Because king minos thought that if it wasn’t for the machine that daedalus made, pasiphae could’ve not been pregnant

52
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What was the name of Pasiphae’s baby? describe the baby

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Minotaur. Minotaur was destructive and was terrible, minotaur had a head of a man an a body of a bull

53
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What did King Minos ask for Daedalus to build and why? And what was that building called?

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A building for the imprisonment of minotaur. Because Minotaur was destructive. A labyrinth

54
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What did King Minos do to daealus after daedalus constructed the labyrinth? Where did King Minos place Daedalus?

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King Minos commanded his guards to lock up Daedalus and his son Icarus in the top of the tower

55
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What were the things that daedalus invented. How did they use it and how did they put it on themselves

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Pair of wings. They used wax to attached it on their backs

56
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Did they manage to escape? What was the warning that Daedalus told Icarus while they were escaping?

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Yes, he warned him to not fly too high, close to the sun

57
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How did Icarus die? How did daedalus act after he saw his son died?

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He flew too close to the sun and the wax that attached the wings to his back melted off and the wings got detached and he fell in the ocean. He only looked at him then continued his journey on going to sicily.

58
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Where did daedalus planned to go when they were escaping

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Sicily

59
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What is the moral of this mythological story “Daedalus and Icarus”

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Obey your parents, consequences of one’s actions

60
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It is the underlying idea of the story. It is sometimes defined as the “moral” of the story.

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Theme

61
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It refers to who is telling or narrating a story. A story can be told in three different ways: first person, second person, and third person.

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Point of view

62
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It is using an object or action that means something more than its literal meaning.

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Symbol

63
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It is the time and geographic location within a narrative, either nonfiction or fiction.

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Setting

64
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It is a struggle between opposing forces.

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conflict

65
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It can be defined as any person, animal or figure represented in literary work

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character

66
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It is the sequence of events that make up a story, more specifically, how the story develops, unfolds, and moves in time.

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Plot

67
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what does literary and element mean?

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literature or stories and a part of something

68
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the main characters are also called what?

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Protagonists

69
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the opposing characters are also called?

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antagonist

70
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what does the wings symbolizes in daedalus and icarus?

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The wings symbolizes freedom,

71
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what is an author’s purpose?

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to enlighten the reader

72
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what are the main 3 types of author’s purpose?

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to persuade, to inform, to entertain

73
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it will aim to convince the reader. it attempts the reader to agree with the point of view

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persuade

74
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how to identify if the purpose of the author is to persuade ?

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when the readers feel like the writer is trying to get them to believe on something

75
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the righter usually wish the readers to get enlighten by real-world topic. “Purpose of educating them on a given topic”

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inform

76
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how do you identify if the writer’s purpose is to inform

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they usually put facts

77
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when the writer keeps things entertaining as possible

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to entertain

78
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how to identify if the writer’s purpose is to entertain?

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they use techniques to keep them entertained like adding cliffhangers, add humor, action-packed scene, melodrama

79
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when the writer use words that describe something in more detail than be conveyed in a paragraph issue alone.

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describe

80
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how to identify if the author’s purpose is to describe?

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us readers will use our imaginations to picture on what the writer is describing

81
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when the writer tells the reader to do something or teaches them on how to do something

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to explain

82
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how to identify if the writer’s purpose is to explain?

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diagrams or illustrations are used, when the writer is telling us to do something

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