Reading Skills
What is point of view?
The character or force in conflict with a main character (protagonist)
What is antagonist?
A grouped lines in a poem
What is a stanza?
A statement that may be based on facts but cannot be proven
What is opinion?
Coal is a nonrenewable resource. Once we use it, it is gone. Coal cannot be replaced in a short amount of time, and humans cannot manufacture it. The natural process required to make coal takes millions of years. In this paragraph, the word nonrenewable means – A cannot be made in a short amount of time B can be used over and over again C made by humans D lasts a long time
A. cannot be made in a short amount of time
What is the skill you are using if you are making an educated guess based on the text, but is NOT directly written in the text?
What is making an inference?
The overall, worldly lesson that can be learned from the story
What is theme?
In a drama, what are the words written in parenthesis called? Remember, these words are not meant to be read aloud. Example: Early morning, in a classroom. There is a broken computer on the floor next to the teacher’s desk. David enters and sees Cathy. He seems shocked. David:(Shouting) What are you doing? Cathy:(Nervous) Nothing.
What are stage directions?
A statement that can be proven true or false when research is done
What is a factual claim or fact?
We noticed buzzards circling overhead. Mr. Austin asked us why we thought buzzards were in the area. Most of us knew something must be dead or dying. Our teacher looked through the brush and found a dead fish.
brush (n): A. a light touch B. a thick of growth of bushes C. a device that has bristles fastened into a handle D. a tool for painting
Which is the best definition for the word brush.
What is "B"
Point of view when the narrator is an observer and the reader can zoom in on the thoughts and emotions of any character
What is third person omniscient?
Written conversation between two or more characters and identifiable by quotation marks
What is dialogue?
Words used in an imaginative way to express ideas that are not literally true
What is figurative language?
A statement that is generally accepted to be true by MOST people
What is a commonplace assertion/popular opinion?
Clarke heard Gilbert and was unaffected by his bluster. He locked eyes with Gilbert and said, “You’re a good math student, but I’m going to give you some competition." Gilbert bragged, “You’re wasting your time. I have it in the bag.”
If the word affected means “influenced” or “acted upon,” unaffected means – A frightened B not encouraged C not changed D embarrassed
What is "C" not changed?
What the paragraph or passage is mostly about
What is main idea?
A summary includes what information from a text
What is BME (beginning, middle, and end)?
The feeling or atmosphere created in the reader by a literary work or passage
What is mood?
Name at least two text features you need to consider and notice when reading an expository text.
What are graphics/figures, sidebars, subtitles, and bolded/italicized words/phrases?
It’s evening in the Arctic. The ice groans as a polar bear waits near a seal’s breathing hole in the ice. The polar bear is a patient animal, waiting quietly for hours if necessary. As soon as the seal surfaces to breathe, the polar bear sinks its sharp teeth into its main source of food.
In this paragraph, the words “The ice groans” mean – A the polar bear is making sounds to attract its prey B polar bears live in the Arctic where it is very noisy C the ice is creaking under the weight of the polar bear D the polar bear has injured its strong paws from swimming
What is "C"?
The writer's or speaker's attitude toward a subject of a poem, story, or other literary work
What is tone?
What are the five parts of the plot?
Exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, resolution
What is the section or division of a play (similar to chapters in a book)?
An act
What are the five text structures?
Cause & Effect, Compare/Contrast, Description, Sequence, Problem & Solution
Read this dictionary entry. handsome adjective 1. having a pleasing appearance 2. skillfully executed 3. fairly large 4. well-made
Which definition of handsome is used in this sentence?
NARRATOR: At that moment, a city slicker strolls into the shop and purchases the boots for a handsome price.
A Definition 1 B Definition 2 C Definition 3 D Definition 4
What is "C" fairly large?