Reading Skills
This is the "voice" of a work; it refers to the narrator's perspective.
What is point of view?
This is the term for the character or force in conflict with the main character.
What is antagonist?
What is the name of the rhyme scheme used in this stanza?
Roses are red
Violets are blue
I hit my head
And threw up too
What is ABAB?
"Like burnt-out torches by a sick man's bed" What figurative language is being used?
What is a simile?
What TYPE of question is this:
Which statement best expresses the main theme of the excerpt?
What is theme?
This is the abbreviation for the three primary reasons that authors write - also tell what each letter stands for.
What is PIE, to persuade, inform, or entertain?
This term means the overall lesson or truth that you can learn from a literary work.
What is theme?
What is the name for words that imitate sounds?
What is onomatopoeia?
"The leaves are little yellow fish swimming in the river." What figurative language is being used?
What is a metaphor?
What TYPE of question is this:
What are paragraphs 6 and 7 mainly about?
What is main idea?
In this point of view, the narrator is an observer, and can zoom in on the thoughts and emotions of multiple characters.
What is third person omniscient?
This word means a written conversation between two or more characters and identifiable by quotation marks.
What is dialogue?
Barren branches pierce the sky,
Chattering in the shivering breeze.
The clouds hold captive
Rays of the gloomy sunshine.
Blades of grass brown and tattered
From frost’s sharp fingernails.
Winter squeezes the last breath
Out of all that once thrived.
The mood the author creates in this poem could be described as...
What is gloomy (or another appropriate adjective)?
"The road was a ribbon of black in between fields of green." Why does the author compare the road to a "ribbon of black"
What is "it is wavy like a ribbon"? Or dark colored, etc.
What TYPE of question is this:
The author most likely wrote this passage to...What is author's purpose?
List two of the most common text structures (organization) for nonfiction writing. (Can give one example if needed).
What is author's cause/effect, problem/solution, compare/contrast, description, chronological, sequence of steps
A good summary of a text must include the important information from what three sections of s story?
What is BME (beginning, middle, and end)?
This term means a type of poetry that has no regular rhyme scheme or rhythm.
What is free verse?
"When the stars threw down their spears, And water'd heaven with their tears," What figurative language is being used?
What is personification?
What TYPE of question is this:
What can the reader conclude about the author’s opinion of Washington’s strategy for information-gathering?
What is inference?
This is the word for the writer's or speaker's attitude toward a subject of a poem, story, or other literary work.
What is tone?
List the five parts of the plot diagram.
What is exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, and resolution?
"The Base Stealer"
Poised between going on and back, pulled
Both ways taut like a tightrope-walker,
Fingertips pointing the opposites,
Now bouncing tiptoe like a dropped ball
In these four lines there are two examples of which type of figurative language?
What is simile?
"Being famous is a bee. It has a song -- It has a sting --" Why does the author compare being famous to a bee?
What is "it has positive and negative qualities"?
How does the author’s purpose for writing in “Dear Fellow Writer” differ from the poet’s purpose in “What the Page Says”?
To answer this question, you will need to __________ and ______________.
What is "compare and contrast"?