Analogies
Nonfiction
Reading Potpourri
Plot Structure
Figurative Language
100
Candy is to sweet as lemon is to
What is sour?
100
Identify the text structure: I forgot to set my alarm last night. As a result, I overslept and was late for my reading SOL!
What is cause-effect?
100
Using your background knowledge and the text to make an educated guess.
What is an inference?
100
This is the part of the plot when all the loose ends are tied up and the story is resolved.
What is the resolution?
100
The sheets were as cold as ice?
What is a simile?
200
blue : color :: daisy :___________
What is flower?
200
This graphic organizer can be used with this text structure.
What is chronological text structure?
200
The emotional or cultural meaning surrounding a word.
What is connotation?
200
This is the part of the plot when the conflict is triggered.
What is the initiating event?
200
The road was a ribbon of moonlight.
What is a metaphor?
300
stiff : flexible :: empty : _______________
What is full?
300
Text structure that uses these transition words: also, too, like, unlike, different from, same as, similarly, as opposed to, however, but, on the other hand, both.
What is compare contrast?
300
Repetition of similar sounds at the end of a word.
What is rhyme?
300
Setting and characters are introduced, and background information is explained.
What is exposition?
300
"Don't try nothin' 'cause I got a razor here sharp enough to cut a week into nine days!"
What is hyperbole?
400
chimney : smoke :: faucet : _________________
What is water?
400
Features in a text that catch your eye - fonts, colors, charts, graphs.
What are external text features (structures)?
400
The attitude of the author towards the topic he or she writers about.
What is tone?
400
Name the parts of plot in order.
What is What is exposition, initiating event, rising action, climax, falling action, resolution?
400
Vivid description that includes details which appeal to the senses.
What is imagery?
500
scale : weigh :: ruler : _________________
What is measure?
500
Name the text structure: Pro soccer players head the ball thousands of times during their careers. Doctors are unsure whether players that repeatedly head the ball are more susceptible to head injuries later in life. Therefore, many parents and coaches are taking steps to protect the heads of young players. They are making sure that children are learning how to correctly head the ball, that the ball is the right size for their age, and by making a "no heading" rule for very young players.
What is a problem-solution?
500
Lions are not as NOBLE as people think. For instance, lions sometimes kill for no reason. They do not kill only to get food. The word NOBLE most likely means...
a) strong b) mean c) good d) fierce
What is c) good?
500
When determining the plot structure of a story, you must first determine the ____________.
What is main/central conflict?
500
Name and identify the two types of figurative language. The scorching blade slashed at my eyelashes and stabbed at my stinging eyes. The sea carried up a thick, fiery breath.
What is alliteration and personification?
600
Teacher : School ::
a. Businessman : Money
b. Waitress : Restaurant
c. Dentist : Tooth
d. Fish : Water
What is b. Waitress : Restaurant?
600
Identify the text structure: Identify the text structure: Global warming is a looming threat to the world. Just what is it? Scientists agree that global warming refers to the increase in the average temperature of the Earth's near-surface air and oceans in recent decades and its projected continuation.
What is concept definition?
600
Literary element that includes duration (time elapsed).
What is setting?
600
Event that is the climax of The Giver?
What is when Jonas sees his father "release" a twin.
600
"Don't stomp on that richness,
instead hang it up on the walls
of museums next to Dali and Van Gogh"
Literary device used to form this metaphor in Broken English.
What is allusion?