_____ can help you determine the meaning of a word.
What is context clues?
100
"reading between the lines" or "educated guess" is the definition
What is inference?
100
a category of literature
What is genre?
100
An author's ____ is his or her reason for writing a book.
What is author's purpose?
200
The author shows you what the character is like.
What is indirect characterization?
200
Bark is an example of a word that has __________.
What is multiple meanings?
200
Sally arrives at home at 4:30 and knows that her mother does not get off of work until 5. Sally also sees that the lights are off in their house. Sally can infer that _____.
What is "her mother is not yet home."?
200
A _____ is a written account of another person’s life
What is a biography?
200
When the author tells a personal or fictional story that is based on real or imaginary events, his purpose is to ___.
What is to entertain?
300
words that describe a character
What is character traits?
300
Preview is a an example of a word that has _____.
What is prefix?
300
Bob knows that Baltimore is known for its crabcakes and Bob is going to a seafood restaurant in Baltimore for dinner tonight. Bob can infer that the restaurant will _____.
What is the restaurant will likely serve crabcakes?
300
An _____ gives the history of a person’s life, written or told by that person. Often written in Narrative form of their person’s life.
What is an autobiography?
300
When an author lets the readers know how he/she thinks about the subject or tries to talk the reader into thinking like the author thinks, his purpose is to ___.
What is persuade?
400
name the five ways to STEAL evidence about a character
What is what a character says, thinks, effect on others, acts, and looks?
400
Jumping is an example of a word that has _________.
What is a suffix?
400
Sherry's toddler is in bed upstairs. She hears a bang and crying. Sherry can infer that _____.
What is her toddler fell out of bed?
400
_____ deals with actual, real-life subjects
What is nonfiction?
400
When the author gives a picture with words of a person, place, event, or item, his purpose is to _____.
What is describe?
500
causes a character to act in a certain way
What is motivation?
500
Reliance on ____-based words sometimes makes reading legal materials a bit difficult.
What is Latin?
500
John hears a smoke alarm and smells burnt bacon. John can infer that his neighbor _____.
What is burnt her breakfast?
500
_____ is a story with fictional characters and events in a historical setting.
What is historical fiction?
500
When the author gives information about a subject, his purpose is to ___.