Reading (1)
The location and time of a story
Setting
What is called when you put the text in your own words?
Paraphrasing
"He was as quiet as a mouse" is an example of ___.
simile
What figurative language is expressed in the following sentence:
I have told you a million times!
Hyperbole
What is author's purpose? What is author's message?
Purpose- Why
Message-Lesson
What the author is trying to teach you?
Theme.
This is a short version of the story that includes just the important details.
summary
"The bright orange walls screamed at her as she walked into the room." is an example of what type of figurative language?
personification
What is wrong with this sentence?
He walked to the store and buy some milk.
The verb tenses don't agree
walked is past tense and buy is present tense.
Using context clues, what does the word feeble mean in the sentence below.
Even though she is feeble, the old lady still walks a mile every day.
without strength or weak
The vocabulary words listed in the back of the book is called?
Glossary
The Author's Purpose of a Lexus (car) commercial (remember PIE)
To persuade you to buy a car
What is the ending of a story called?
resolution
Boom, crack, buzz
Onomatopoeia
What is claim? What is a counter-claim? Provide Example.
Claim is the argument and Counterclaim is the opposite opinion of the claim.
What the story is mainly about?
Central or Main idea
When the story is told from the perspective of the narrator, using words like "I" or "me"
First person
To describe how things are alike and how they are different
compare and contrast
What are the paragraphs in a poem called? and what are the sentences called?
Stanzas and Lines
A book about a person written by someone else.
biography
How the author feels about a topic is known as...
The author's point of view or perspective
A picture with labels is called what in a nonfiction book?
Caption
Which figurative language is the following sentence?
"She is a tornado when she gets angry!"
metaphor
What is an adjective? Provide an example!
A word that describes a noun
Which sentence is punctuated correctly?
1. After he came home, he went to the store to pick up grapes, apples, and chips.
2. After he came home he went to the store to pick up grapes apples and chips
3. After he came home he went to the store to pick up, grapes, apples and chips,
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