Reading Skills
The time and place of the story
What is the setting?
Grouped lines in a poem
What is a stanza?
Two examples of organizational patterns used in an expository text
What are cause and effect, chronological, problem solution, compare/contrast, order of importance?
The abbreviation for author's purpose and what each letter stands for
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?
A sound device that uses repetition of the beginning consonant sound
What is alliteration?
A type of writing that presents a true story but reads more like fiction
What is narrative nonfiction?
or
What is a memoir?
The narrator is an observer, but can also zoom in on the thoughts and emotions of any character
What is third person omniscient?
Two main types of conflict in a story
What are external and internal conflict?
Words used in an imaginative way to express ideas that are not literally true
What is figurative language?
An argumentative text begins with the author's _____, or position on the topic
What is a claim?
A summary or short text that describes the original text must include what abbreviated information from the story
What is BME (beginning, middle, and end)?
The five stages of linear plot
What is exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, resolution
The voice, or narrator, of the poem
What is the speaker?
Used to support an author's claim in an argumentative text
What is evidence?
or
What are facts, statistics, examples?
Identify the sound device: Her bitter tears bewildered those around her
What is alliteration?
A reflection of a writer's or speaker's attitude toward a subject of a poem, story, or other literary work
What is tone?
Nonlinear plot may have _________ or ________ that interrupt the natural flow of the story
What are flashback and foreshadowing?
The feeling or atmosphere created in the reader by a literary work or passage
What is mood?
A statement that is generally accepted to be true by MOST people (two words)
What is a commonplace assertion?
Name the sound device and explain why it is used:
Fear! it ran through her veins
Fear! It covered her body
Fear! It was senseless, yet something that she could not control
Fear, paralyzing fear!
What is repetition used to emphasize an idea?