Word Bank Main idea
nonfiction
infer
title
Summarizing
author
compare
contrast
1.
writing that concerns real events and is intended to explain,
inform, persuade, or give directions
2.
to make a brief statement about the essential ideas in a text
3.
the name of the article or text
4.
what the text is mostly about
5
to use information the author has given you plus your prior
knowledge to find the meaning of the text
6.
to tell how things are alike
7.
to tell how things are different
8.
the person who wrote the article or text

In 1808, their friend, the romantic poet clemens brentano, asked them to collect all types of folk tales so he could use them in a book of literary fairy tales. in 1810, they sent him fifty-four texts, which they fortunately copied. fortunately, because brentano then lost the manuscript in the ölenberg monastery in alsace and never used the grimms’ texts. when they realized that brentano was not going to use the tales, they decided, upon the advice of another romantic writer and mutual friend, achim von arnim, to publish their collection. it had grown to eighty-six tales, which they published in 1812, and then another seventy, which they published in 1815. –“how the grimm brothers saved the fairy tale,” jack zipes what structural technique does the writer use in this passage? the writer describes events in chronological order. the writer describes events in their order of importance. the writer provides a central idea and then lists examples. the writer shows how the grimms made mistakes and then solved them.