Vocabulary 1
Words around another word that can help you figure out the meaning of the word.
What is context clues?
Prior Knowledge + Textual Evidence
or
Background Knowledge and Textual Evidence
What is making inference?
An educated guess made from observations.
What is an inference?
The lake waves were flakes of red gold.
What is a Metaphor?
Conversation between two or more people as a feature of a book, play, or movie.
What is dialogue?
Used around textual evidence to show that it's the author's words and not yours.
What are quotation marks?
The meaning of the acronym T.W.I.S.T is...
What is Tone, Word Choice, Imagery and Details, Structure and Theme?
The place, time, period, and atmosphere of a story.
What is the setting?
A watery light Touched bleak the granite bridge, and white Without the slightest tinge of gold, The city shivered in the cold.
What is personification?
A lesson the author wants the reader to learn.
What is a theme?
Taking notes and highlighting while reading to help with understanding and answering questions.
What is annotating?
This strategy requires a concise, focused answer, typically a few sentences or a short paragraph, to demonstrate understanding or knowledge of a specific topic.
What is a short response?
Direct words from a passage to prove an answer.
What is textual evidence?
To snap like vixens at the truth.
What is simile?
The perspective from which a story is told,
What is point-of-view?
What the story, article, or paragraph is about
What is the main idea?
This acronym is used when writing structured responses.
What is RACECE?
Tamar raised her binoculars toward the defile. At firsy she distinguished nothing but the rocks and trees. Then she saw them: a score or more of them, carrying branches before them as camouflage. They were picking their way down the slope and spreading out in a rank when they reached level ground.
The word defile in this passage means
a) to make dirty b) to walk in single file
c) a steep and narrow valley
d) to cheapen, make unsuitable
What is a steep and narrow valley?
Your lips, light as the wings of the dragon-flies...
What is a simile?
The author's choice of narrator determines the story's....
What is point of view?
What is Tone?
The ideas, values, feelings, and beliefs....
What is perspective?
The word relationships in line 3 suggests that loathe means?
What is hate?
The wind whispered through the trees, telling secrets only the leaves could understand.
What is personification?
The three types of point of view are ...
What is First person, Third person limited, Third person omniscient?