Reading Skills
Fiction
Poetry
Expository Text
SHAMPOOPI
100
The "voice" of a work; the narrator's perspective
What is point of view?
100
the character or force in conflict with a main character
What is antagonist?
100
grouped lines in a poem
What is a stanza?
100
a statement that cannot be proven true or false
What is opinion?
100

Identify the type of figurative language: "Her lovely voice was music to his ears."

What is a metaphor?
200
the author's intent or reason for writing
What is AUTHOR'S PURPOSE?
200
the overall, worldly lesson that can be learned from the story; a repeated idea or lesson in a literary text and often deals with abstract questions, beliefs, or truths
What is theme?
200

What is the rhyme scheme of the following poem?

Roses are red.

Violets are blue.

I need the answers to the test;

Can I get them from you?

What is A, B, C, B.
200
leaning toward a certain opinion or position on a topic.
What is BIAS?
200
Identify the type of figurative language: "Micaela and I are going to hang out and SHOOT THE BREEZE before the movie since we arrived early to the theater."
What is an idiom?
300
the narrator is not a character and knows the thoughts and feelings of many characters
What is third person omniscient?
300
written conversation between two or more characters and identifiable by quotation marks
What is dialogue?
300
words used in an imaginative way to express ideas that are not literally true
What is figurative language?
300
the central topic of a text
What is the main idea?
300
Identify the figurative language: "The tree limbs danced in the wind."
What is personification?
400
how the author creates the passage and puts it together (ex. cause and effect, sequencing, problem-solution, etc.)
What is author's organization?
400

the 2 things that must be included in the setting

What is time and location?
400
the feeling or atmosphere created in the reader by a literary work or passage
What is mood?
400

a summary that describes the original text must include what 3 abbreviated things from the text?

What is BME (beginning, middle, and end)?

400
Identify the figurative language: "Her hair was as soft as a spider web."
What is a simile?
500
a reflection of a writer's or speaker's attitude toward a subject of a poem, story, or other literary work
What is tone?
500
 the five sections of a fiction story plot
What is exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, and resolution?
500
the name and author of the poem Ponyboy recited in The Outsiders
What is "Nothing Gold Can Stay," by Robert Frost?
500
What is the difference between an autobiography and a biography?
What is an autobiography is a true story of a person's life written or told by that person and a biography is a true story of a person's life written or told by someone else?
500
Identify the figurative language: "Alice's aunt ate apples and acorns around August."
What is alliteration?
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