Reading Skills
The "voice" of a work; the narrator's perspective.
What is point of view?
A character or force that is in conflict with a main character.
What is antagonist?
Grouped lines in a poem.
What is a stanza?
A statement that cannot be proven true or false.
What is an opinion?
Identify the type of figurative language being used: "John's answer to the problem was just a Band-Aid, not a solution."
What is a metaphor?
The ending or outcome to a story.
What is resolution?
The three types of author's purpose:
What is to persuade, inform, and entertain?
The overall lesson that can be learned from the story; a repeated idea in a literary text
What is theme?
Descriptions that appeal to the five senses.
What is sensory imagery?
This is a proven statement used to support the author's claim.
What is a fact?
Identify the figurative language: "Her hair was as soft as a spider web."
What is a simile?
The type of strategy I will use to analyze poetry.
What is TPDASTT?
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?
similes, metaphors, and personification are examples of this; pushes beyond the literal meaning of words
What is the use of figurative language?
Writing written to convince someone to do or buy something.
What is Persuasive text?
Identify the figurative language: "The thunder clapped angrily in the distance."
What is personification?
Words that represent actual sounds.
What is onomatopoeia?
How a passage is put together (ex. cause and effect, sequencing, problem-solution, chronological order, etc.)
What is the organizational structure?
These three things need to be present for a complete summary.
What is beginning, middle, and end?
The feeling or atmosphere created in the reader by a literary work or passage.
What is mood?
To accompany the text, the author uses graphics, sidebars, subtitles, and bolded/italicized words/phrases also known as
What is text text structures/features?
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?
A story written to be performed.
What is a play or drama?
The elements of plot structure in a story.
What is exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, and resolution?
The two types of conflict a character can experience.
What is internal and external?
Name a poem we read in class
What is "Mother to Son" or "The Road Not Taken" or "Dog Walk" or "Post Early for Space" "Homemade Hot Sauce"
The purpose of the first few sentences in a body paragraph.
What is to state the main idea/topic of the paragraph that illustrates the claim the author is proving?
Identify the figurative language: "I'm so hungry I could eat a horse."
What is hyperbole?
A conclusion drawn based on information presented.
What is an inference?