Reading Skills
the narrator's perspective. Who is telling the story?
What is point of view?
the character or force in conflict with a main character
What is antagonist?
grouped lines in a poem
What is a stanza?
This author's purpose is used when an author wants you to agree with him or her.
What is persuade?
Identify the type of figurative language: "John's answer to the problem was just a Band-Aid, not a solution."
What is a metaphor?
Name at least two purposes for nonfiction writers.
What is PIE, to persuade, inform, or entertain?
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?
Metaphor and Simile.
The main idea of an entire nonfiction text.
What is central idea?
Identify the type of figurative language: "The answer was blowing in the wind."
What is an personification?
the narrator is an observer, but can also 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?
This text structure gives directions of what to do in order or tells a story in order.
What is sequential?
A pattern often seen in poetry in which the author uses the same beginning sound for multiple words in a row or near each other.
What is alliteration?
how the author creates the passage and puts it together. (ex. cause and effect, sequencing, problem-solution, etc.)
What is author's organization?
a summary or short text that describes the original text must include what abbreviated information from the story. A strategy you can use to summarize.
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 two things you can consider when road mapping nonfiction,
Text features, purpose, organization, central idea.
Identify the figurative language: "Her hair was as soft as a spider web."
What is a simile?
a reflection of a writer's or speaker's attitude toward a subject of a poem, story, or other literary work
What is tone?
The most exciting part of a story. The turning point.
What is exposition (Cinderella is unhappily living with her stepmother and stepsisters and made to do all the work.), rising action (All the girls are invited to a ball by the Prince, and Cinderella is able to attend with the help of her fairy godmother only until midnight.), climax (Cinderella loses one shoe.), falling action (The prince's men try the show on everyone in the kingdom, and it fits Cinderella.), and resolution (Cinderella and the prince live happily ever after.)
Giving an object or animal human characteristics.
What is personification?
Name three ways an author can organize a nonfiction text.
What is cause and effect, description, problem solution, comparison, sequence?
The man are voraciously, like he would never have another meal. The definition of voraciously is...
Eager, with a big appetite.