Literary Terms
A comparison using like or as
What is a simile?
This part of speech describes a noun
What is an adjective?
When you guess what will happen next in a text based on past events/evidence
What is predicting?
The feeling that a text creates in the reader
What is mood?
A brief written response that answers a question using evidence from the text and explains your reasoning.
What is a short response (or open-response)?
The message or lesson of a story that can be applied to real life
What is theme?
A sentence must always have these to be complete
What are a subject and a verb (predicate)?
Using the words around an unknown word to determine its meaning
What is using context clues?
The way that an author writes a story: first, second, or third person.
What is point of view?
What is citing/including text evidence/quotes?
When an object, image, or word/phrase represent something else
What is a symbol / what is symbolism?
The difference between its and it's
What is its is a possessive pronoun and it's means it is?
This strategy involves looking at questions before reading the passage
What is previewing?
The use of hints to suggest something that will happen later in a story
What is foreshadowing?
What is an excerpt or passage?
The struggle between opposing forces in a story
What is conflict?
When citing a quote, where should the period go?
What is at the very end of the sentence after the parentheses?
Creating visual tools like charts or diagrams to organize ideas from a passage/answer a question
What is making graphic organizers?
The reason an author writes a text - to persuade, to inform, to entertain, or to explain.
What is author's purpose?
Words or phrases that help move from one idea to another.
What are transition words / phrases?
A reference to another work of literature, famous person, or famous event.
What is an allusion?
Choose the correct word and EXPLAIN why:
The new policy had a big ______________ on student behavior.
What is effect because the sentence is describing an outcome?
Using clues/information from the text to make an educated guess about something that is not directly stated.
What is inferring?
When the opposite of what is expected happens
What is irony?
Carefully review and craft an argument about a text based on evidence
What is analysis?