Objective Terms
Objective Terms
Reading Vocabulary
Reading Vocabulary
Jeopardy
100
the most important idea of a story or passage
What is main idea?
100
Short overview of most important ideas in a text or story
What is summary?
100
gloomy, bleak
What is morose?
100
intensely, passionately
What is vehemently?
100
to regret a past action
What is penury?
200
Putting others text into your own words
What is paraphrase?
200
series of events in a story
What is plot?
200
Not able to be taken back
What is irrevocable?
200
quickly, in a hurry
What is haste?
200
to steal during conflict or war
What is to loot?
300
Introduces the characters and setting
What is exposition?
300
The problem in a story
What is conflict/climax?
300
large, destructive fire
What is conflagration?
300
deadly
What is lethal?
300
Not able to stand or tolerate
What is intolerable?
400
the events that lead up to the conflict/climax
What is rising action?
400
Events that lead to a resolution in a story
What is falling action?
400
to be punished
What is condemned?
400
long, escorted line of cars, boats, people, etc.
What is convoy?
400
to make a mistake
What is to err?
500
why/what causes a character to do something
What is motivation?
500
Clues from the text plus what we already know
What is inferencing?
500
to irritate, cause to be angry
What is provoke?
500
actions that one tries to hold back
What is inhibitions?
500
extremely poor
What is penury?
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