Reading Strategy
Literary Element
Genres
prefix/suffix/roots
Poetry
100
Name of strategy that you use prior to reading a text.
What is TIP?
100
a figure of speech in which a thing, quality, or idea is represented as a person
What is personification?
100
A collection of words that express an emotion or idea, sometimes with a specific rhythm.
What is poetry?
100
You can see the prefix in the following words: remember, reread, reimburse, recognize
What is "again"?
100
A poem or verse having a regular correspondence of sounds, especially at the ends of lines
What is rhyme?
200
Name of strategy that you use as you read a text.
What is RAP?
200
a word or phrase used to compare two unlike objects, ideas, thoughts or feelings to provide a clearer description without using like or as
What is metaphor?
200
This is a narrative one wrote about oneself.
What is autobiography?
200
You can see the prefix in the following words: preview, prepare, preposition, prefix
What is "before"?
200
the theme
What is the message?
300
Name of strategy that you use as you read a piece poetry.
What is SIFT?
300
repetition of an initial sound, usually of a consonant or cluster, in two or more words of a phrase, line of poetry
What is alliteration?
300
a literary composition that tells a story, usually of human conflict, by means of dialogue and action, to be performed by actors
What is drama ?
300
You can see the prefix in the following words: misfit, mistake, misleading, misconduct
What is "wrongful"?
300
One of the divisions of a poem, composed of two or more lines usually characterized by a common pattern of meter, rhyme, and number of lines.
What is stanza?
400
Name of strategy that you use for author's purpose.
What is PIE?
400
a figure of speech where two unlike things are compared, generally by using the word "like" or "as"
What is simile?
400
This is a story a person wrote about another person.
What is biography?
400
You can see the prefix in the following words: transportation, transit, translation
What is "across"?
400
Types of figurative language found in poetry.
What are metaphors, similes, personification, onomatopoeia, hyperboles, symbolism, or alliteration?
500
Name of strategy that you can use for analyzing characters.
What is STEAL?
500
when something happens in a story that is the opposite of what you expected
What is irony?
500
This is a form of a creative narrative that has a plot, characters, setting, and other elements that are based on one's imagination.
What is fiction?
500
You can see the prefix in the following words: semicircle, semifinal, semiformal.
What is prefix "half"?
500
The arrangement of rhymes in a poem or stanza (EX: ABABAB, AAB AAB)
What is rhyme scheme?
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