Support your answers by finding details in the selection. What does "support" mean?
What is to prove ?
100
A word part added to the beginning of a root word.
What is a prefix?
200
the part of the story when the problem is finally solved
What is the resolution?
200
figurative language that compares two things by using the word "like" or "as"
What are similes?
200
stories passed down from generation to generation by word of mouth
What are folktales?
200
to run your eyes over the passage to look for important ideas and clue words
What is skim and scan?
200
Words that mean about the same thing.
What are synonyms?
300
a problem that the characters face
What is a conflict?
300
figurative language that has become a common saying
What are idioms?
300
writing that tells about real people, places, and events
What is nonfiction?
300
to show how things are different
What is contrast?
300
a group of lines in a poem
What is a stanza?
400
a big idea that is important for all people, not just those in the selection
What is the theme?
400
To give human thoughts, feelings, and characteristics to animals or other objects such as nature.(the sun, moon, wind...) Example: The tree lifts its arms to the sun.
What is personification?
400
a story that is made up but it's believable and could happen
What is a realistic fiction?
400
to be entertained, to be informed, to be persuaded, to be directed.
What is author's purpose?
400
when you gather all the clues from the passage and combine them with what you already know to figure out the hidden meaning in the passage
What is an inference?
500
tells whether a narrator is inside the story or outside the story
What is point of view?
500
the use of two or more words starting with the same consonant sound
What is alliteration?
500
impossible situations, animals that talk,etc.
What is fantasy
500
retelling the events of the reading passage in sequence, telling the most basic ideas of the passage
What is to summarize?
500
To guess what might happen based on current information or previous experience