Reading 6th Grade
Making an educated guess about a text
What is an inference
This type of writing is meant to teach your audience on particular topics.
What is the informational writing?
The type of figurative language that uses strong exaggeration
What is hyperbole?
(Polite) _____ you tell me what time it is, please?
a. Could
b. Can
c. Will
c. Will
The main point the author is trying to make in an informational text?
What is central idea?
A word opposite in meaning to another
What is an antonym?
This type of writing is meant to convince your audience to see things from your perspective. Speeches, ads and commercials fall under this category
What is persuasive writing
"The bright orange walls screamed at her as she walked into the room." is an example of what type of figurative language?
What is personification?
When should you include a period in your writing?
When the thought, or idea is complete. At the end of a sentence.
How the author or speaker comes across in a text?
What is tone?
The perspective from which a story is told
What is point of view
This type of writing can be fiction or non-fiction, but is usually written as a story that is told from in 1st person or 3rd person with characters, setting, plot
What is narrative writing?
The time or location where a story takes place
What is setting?
Choose the correct form of the verb be: "We _______ about to have dinner."
a. to be
b. are
c. is
What is "b.are"
"I'm so hungry I could eat an ox!"
What is a hyperbole?
This is the main message the author wants to convey in his/her story. This is the moral is the lesson that the writer wants you to learn from the story.
What is a theme?
When the story is told from the perspective of the narrator, using words like "I" or "me"
What is first person?
To describe how things are alike and how they are different
What is compare and contrast?
A person place or thing.
What is a noun?
"Her home was a prison."
What is a metaphor?
the main events of a play, novel, movie, or similar work, devised and presented by the writer as an interrelated sequence.
What is a plot?
This type of writing uses figurative language. Is usually short in length and includes techniques such as repetition.
What is a poetry
A group of words that mean something other than the literal meaning.
What is idiom?
My sister _____ play tennis now.
a. can to
b. can
c. will can
b. can
The crisp, crunchy croissants were scrumptious.
What is alliteration?