Academic Vocabulary
What is another word for "theme" in a story?
A. Main Character
B. Central Message
C. Conflict
D. Genre
What is "Central Message".
When asked for the central idea, you should:
A. Find the author's favorite part
B. Pick a fun detail
C. Find the most important message
D. Look at the title only
What is "find the most important message"
To cite strong evidence, you should:
A) Copy random sentences
B) Paraphrase important points
C) Guess without reading
D) Make up a quote
What is "paraphrase important points"
To find character motivation, you should look at:
A) Weather descriptions
B) Characters' actions and words
C) Background details
D) Chapter titles
What is "characters' actions and words"
Prefixes and suffixes help you:
A) Guess wrong meanings
B) Decorate words
C) Understand parts of the word's meaning
D) Ignore word parts
What is "understand parts of the word's meaning"
What is the "central idea" of a text?
A. The most exciting part
B. The topic of the first paragraph
C. The author's opinion
D. The main point the author wants to communicate
What is "the main point the author wants to communicate"
How can an author's word choice affect tone?
A. It creates setting
B. It creates mood or emotion
C. It list characters
D. It tells the author's name
What is "it creates mood or emotion"
How do you find a central idea?
A) Read only the title
B) Focus on repeated ideas
C) Ignore headings
D) Memorize big words
What is "focus on repeated lines"
What is the first step to finding theme?
A) Identify the conflict and resolution
B) Find characters’ names
C) Look for the longest paragraph
D) Find rhyming words
What is "identify the conflict and resolution."
What’s a good way to find a word’s meaning?
A) Guess based on the color of the text
B) Look it up in a dictionary or glossary
C) Ask a friend
D) Use it in a sentence randomly
What is "look it up in a dictionary or glossary"
What does "analyze" mean when reading?
A. Summarize quickly
B. Look closely at details
C. Skip unimportant parts
D. Read silently
What is "look closely at details
When choosing evidence, you should find:
A. The first sentence
B. A detail that clearly supports your answer
C. A random example
D. An unrelated fact
What is "a detail that clearly supports your answer"
How does structure (like compare/contrast) help a reader?
A) Makes it confusing
B) Makes the text easier to understand
C) Makes it harder to find main ideas
D) Removes key ideas
What is "makes the text easier to understand"
How does word choice affect tone?
A) It creates a certain feeling or mood
B) It shortens the text
C) It adds extra words
D) It removes emotion
What is "it creates a certain feeling or mood."
Which is a simile?
A) The car roared down the street.
B) She is a walking encyclopedia.
C) He runs like the wind.
D) She had a heavy heart.
What is "he runs like the wind."
A. Both are opinions
B. Claim=proof; Evidence=opinion
C. Claim=statement; Evidence=support
D. Claim=summary; Evidence=prediction
What is "Claim=statement; Evidence=Support"
If a paragraph adds new reasons to a point, it:
A. Changes the topic
B. Builds the argument
C. Introduces a new author
D. Ends the story
What is "builds the argument"
How do charts and diagrams add meaning?
A) Distract from the text
B) Make the page look full
C) Provide visual support for understanding
D) Add humor to the story
What is "provide visual support for understanding"
How does point of view change a story?
A) It doesn’t matter
B) First-person makes it personal; third-person is broader
C) Only first-person stories are good
D) Only third-person stories have settings
What is "first person makes it personal; third-person is broader."
How can you tell if a phrase is figurative?
A) It uses real actions
B) It doesn’t make literal sense
C) It describes real places
D) It lists facts
What is "it doesn't make literal sense."
What is "connotation"?
A. The dictionary meaning of a word
B. The emotional feeling a word creates
C. A story's main idea
D. An author's purpose
What is "the emotional feeling a word creates"
How do characters' interactions reveal their traits?
A. Through setting descriptions
B. Through their conversations and actions
C. Through the narrator's opinion
D. Through background music
What is "through their conversations and actions"
How should you judge an author's argument?
A) See if it’s funny
B) Find if the author’s friends agree
C) Check facts and logic
D) Count paragraphs
What is "check facts and logic"
How do text and multimedia versions of a story differ?
A) Multimedia versions are exactly the same
B) Text is longer
C) Multimedia uses visuals and sound for added impact
D) Text uses more slang
What is "multimedia uses visuals and sound for added impact"
Why is vivid vocabulary important?
A) To confuse the reader
B) To sound fancy
C) To make writing clearer and more exciting
D) To fill up space
What is "to make writing clearer and more exciting"