Reading Prose & Poetry
The correct term for a paragraph in a poem.
What is a stanza?
What are expert opinions, statistics, or facts?
When identifying perspective from different texts which sentences in a paragraph will typically lead you to the main topic of a given paragraph.
What is the topic sentence?
A figurative language term for an historical, mythological, or pop cultural reference in a piece of literature.
What is an allusion?
True or false there can be more than one central idea in a text.
What is true?
The biggest context clue for the word prodigy in the sentence, "The little boy was a prodigy. He was already an expert in fencing at eleven."
What is the word expert?
An author may use this figurative language device to extend a comparison throughout an entire text.
What is an extended metaphor?
Word for how an author's choice of words impacts the reader emotionally or leaves a feeling of positive, negative, or neutral connections to the thoughts, feelings, or actions within the text.
What is connotation or connotative meaning?
The definition for valor in this sentence, "The soldier displayed great valor and received a medal for his courage."
What is brave or couragous?
Term used to describe how an author's feeling or emotions are coming off in a text when the work was written.
What is tone?
Type of reasoning that uses facts to come up with a conclusion or observation.
What is abductive reasoning?
Based on its context and root what is the most likely meaning of vacancy in the sentence... "At first there was a terror in the joy. The wide vacancy of the air dazed them,—a glance downward made their brains reel."
What is emptiness?
There are two ways to cite a poem in a text.
What are using lines or stanza?
When using this pre-reading strategy, the section in the text that helps you identify the main idea or central idea of a text.
What are the first couple paragraphs and the last couple paragraphs?
This is the part of an argument where the author presents the reasoning or logic behind their position.
What is the claim?