Grammar
What is a noun?
Person, place, or thing
What should always go at the end of a sentence?
Punctuation. (.!?)
What is the setting in a story?
2-things-Where and when the story takes place
What is an inference?
a guess
How do you paraphrase?
Retell something in your own words.
What is personification?
Giving non-human things human qualities
Period, question mark, and exclamation marks are known as _________ marks.
punctuation
What is the conflict in a story?
the problem
What are the other terms for key idea?
What is a summary?
A short version of the text with just the main ideas.
What is an idiom?
A phrase that means something different then what it says
Why do we use quotation marks?
To show the words that someone has spoken; dialogue
List some author's purposes.
Persuade, inform, entertain-name synonyms for these verbs
What is key idea?
What the whole text is about
What does compare and contrast mean?
Tell how something is alike and different (similarities and differences)
What is the past tense of drive?
drove
How many sentences are in a paragraph?
4-5 sentences
What is the theme of a story?
The overall message or lesson
How do you RACE?
Restate the question.
Answer the question.
Cite, or copy, evidence.
Explain your answer.
Why do you use context clues?
To determine the meaning of unfamiliar words
What is a verb?
An action word!
Which paragraph do you introduce the characters and setting?
Paragraph 1/ Introduction paragraph
What does text evidence mean?
Showing proof
Name a Genre of text we read in class.
Realistic Fiction
Fantast
Fiction
Informational
What is the main idea of a text?
What is a simile?
Comparing two thing using like or as
How many paragraphs should be in an essay?
What is author's purpose?
WHY an author writes
Poetry has a lot of ______ _______.
Figurative language
What is the meaning of abrupt as used in this sentence?
The car came to an abrupt stop to avoid hitting the cat.
Sudden, quick