Reading Prose & Poetry
What is a setting?
A setting is where the story takes place.
What is a text feature?
NOT EXAMPLES
the components of a story or article that are not the main body of text
What does analyze mean?
To study or examine something in detail
What is a simile?
A comparison of two unlike things, often introduced by like or as.
What is description?
Information is presented in sections that often begin with a central idea and are followed by an elaboration of the features, characteristics, or examples of the subject at hand.
Plot contains these three things
Rising Action
Climax
Resolution
What is the central idea?
the most important or central thoughts unifying elements of a text
one of the individuals in a work of fiction.
What is personification?
Representing a thing or idea as a person.
What is problem and solution?
Information is conveyed as an issue, or a problem of concern and solution(s) are proposed or explained.
What is a theme?
A theme is the underlying message or big idea of a talk, book, fil or other work.
What is an author's perspective?
in informational text, the author’s attitude toward a topic or
subject
in literary text, a character’s attitude
What is an illustration?
a picture or diagram that explains or decorates
What is a metaphor?
A word or phrase for one thing that is used to refer to another thing in order to show or suggest they are similar.
What is compare and contrast?
The similarities and/or differences of two or more people things, concepts, or ideas.
What is a narrator?
A narrator is the person telling the story.
What is an author's claim?
to say that something is true or is a fact, although you cannot prove it and other people might not believe it a statement that something is true or is a fact, although other people might not believe it
What is a primary source?
Sources such as diaries, speeches, interviews, letters etc that were written by someone who experienced the event.
What is an idiom?
A expression that cannot be understood from the meanings of its separate words but must be learned as a whole.
What is cause and effect?
Information reflects a causal relationship. The description of what happened is the effect and the detail(s) related to why it happened is the cause.
What is Point of View?
1st person, 2nd person, or 3rd person
A way of looking at or thinking about something.
What is chronological order?
Facts, events, or details are presented in the order in which they occurred in time. *
What is a secondary source?
sources created by someone who did not experience the event firsthand
What is alliteration?
The repetition of usually initial consonant sounds in two or more neighboring words or syllables.
What is sequence?
Information is presented as a series of instructions or steps in a process.