Reading Comprehension
This tells you where and when a story takes place.
What is setting?
This type of writing is made up or imaginary.
What is fiction?
This compares two things using like or as.
What is a simile?
This part of speech names a person, place, thing, or idea.
What is a noun?
This is one row of words in a poem.
What is a line?
These are words that describe what a character is like, such as brave, selfish, or kind.
What are character traits?
This type of writing gives real facts and information.
What is nonfiction?
This compares two things by saying one thing is another thing.
What is a metaphor?
This part of speech takes the place of a noun, such as he, she, or they.
What is a pronoun?
This is a group of lines in a poem, similar to a paragraph.
What is a stanza?
This is the reason an author writes a story or text, such as to inform, entertain, or persuade.
What is author's purpose?
This type of traditional story has been passed down from generation to generation.
What is a folktale?
This gives human actions or feelings to something that isn't human.
What is personification?
This part of speech shows an action or state of being.
What is a verb?
This is a pair of lines in a poem that usually rhyme.
What is a couplet?
This is the lesson or big idea that a story teaches about life.
What is theme?
This is a book about someone's life written by another person.
What is a biography?
This is an extreme exaggeration that isn't meant to be taken literally.
What is hyperbole?
This part of speech describes a noun or pronoun.
What is an adjective?
This type of poetry does not have to follow a regular rhyme or rhythm pattern.
What is free verse?
This means using clues from the text and what you already know to figure something out that isn't directly stated.
What is infer?
This is a person's life story written by that person.
What is a biography?
This is a phrase that means something different from the literal meaning of its words.
What is an idiom?
This part of speech describes a verb and often tells how, when, or where something happens.
What is an adverb?
This is a three-line poem traditionally following a 5-7-5 syllable pattern.
What is a haiku?