A word or group of words that surrounding an unfamiliar word that help tell the meaning of unfamiliar words.
What is a context clue?
100
The three types of author's purpose.
What is persuade, inform, entertain?
100
Types or categories of literature.
What are genres?
100
The author's underlying message in a piece of fiction. A universal message.
What is theme?
100
A piece of information found on both a card catalog and an electronic catalog.
What is author, title, subject, pages, publisher, etc.
200
The __________ meaning of a word or phrase is a factual way to use it.
What is literal meaning?
200
Techniques that are used to persuade readers and convince them of the author's viewpoint.
What is propaganda?
200
The 4 main types of literary genres.
What are fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and drama?
200
Includes the place and time of the story?
What is setting?
200
The repetition of initial consonant sounds.
What is alliteration?
300
A comparison of the similar aspects (relationships) of 2 different things.
What is an analogy?
300
A type of propaganda where famous people endorse a product or viewpoint.
What is a testimonial?
300
A story with mystical characters and events. It tries to explain something in nature, usually includes gods.
What is a myth?
300
The difference between mood and tone.
What is the feeling a reader experiences while reading the text, and what is the words and attitude that the author uses to convey his message.
300
Gaining research information from Pocahontas' diary is what type of source?
What is primary source?
400
Cold is to winter as hot is to _____________.
What is summer?
400
Giving a short description of what you read. Including main ideas and major supporting details.
What is summarizing?
400
A form of funny story, that uses real details and an overstated manner to explain seemingly impossible deeds and events all done by a superhuman character.
What is a tall tale?
400
The narrator is not a character in the story but knows about all the thoughts and feelings of one character.
What is third person-limited?
400
The Statue of Liberty represents "freedom" -this is an example of...
What is symbolism.
500
day: week :: month : _________
What is year?
500
Is used for shorter passages or quotations. You take an author's words and put them into your own words.
What is paraphrasing?
500
Usually short poems that express personal feelings. The poet speaks directly to the reader and relates his own feelings, viewpoints, and state of mind. Some are sung to music.
What is a lyric poem?
500
The 5 parts of a plot.
What is exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, and resolution.