Reading Comp.
What the author or a character thinks or feels about someone or something.
What is Perspective
The underlying message the author wants the reader to get after reading a story.
What is a Theme?
It is the main point the author wants to make about a topic.
What is the Central Idea?
Words that have the same spelling but have different meanings and pronunciation
What is a Homograph?
Identify the figurative language device:
Snap! Crackle! Pop! Rice Krispies!
What is an Onomatopoeia?
To persuade, inform, or entertain a reader through their writing.
What is Author’s Purpose
They describe a character’s personality and can be determined by the character’s thoughts, feelings, and words.
What are Character Traits?
The author’s opinion about a topic that is supported by evidence.
What is a claim (author’s claim)?
Words that sound the same but have different meanings
What is an Homophone?
Identify the figurative language:
Kelsey’s fingers were icicles when she came in the house after playing in the snow.
What is a Metaphor?
The challenge, obstacle, or struggle a character must face in a story
What is Conflict?
The setting, characters, conflict and events that make up a story
What are Story Elements?
The way the author organizes information in a piece of writing.
What is Text Structure?
Words that have the same spelling and pronunciation but have different meanings
What is a Homonym?
Identify the figurative language:
The stars played hide and go seek.
What is Personification?
The important details of a text, directly supporting the Central Idea of a text
What are Relevant Details?
The events of the story that tell the main parts of the story in sequential order (beginning, middle, and end).
What is the Plot?
Elements of a story or an article that helps the reader to better understand the topic (may be apart of the text or an addition to the text).
What is Text Feature?
A word or letters added to the beginning of a root or base word to change its meaning.
What is a Prefix?
Identify the figurative language:
If I've told you once, I've told you a million times!
What is a Hyperbole?
When an author develops a character by telling us what the think, do, and feel
What is Characterization?
The part of a story where the problem and an intense action come together.
What is the Climax?
A literary text that may follow a rhyme scheme, rhythm or pattern
What is a Poem?
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What is Poetry?
Hints in a sentence or paragraph that help us understand the meaning of a word we may not know.
What are Context Clues?
Identify the figurative language:
It's raining cats and dogs!
What is an Idiom?