Reading Skills
Fiction
Poetry
Informational Text
Practice Makes Perfect
100
The "voice" of a work; the narrator's perspective
What is point of view?
100
the character or force in conflict with a main character
What is antagonist?
100
grouped lines in a poem
What is a stanza?
100
a statement that cannot be proven true or false
What is opinion?
100
Identify the type of figurative language: "John's answer to the problem was just a Band-Aid, not a solution."
What is a metaphor?
200

the reason an author includes graphic feature or certain organizational patterns

What is author's purpose?

200
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?
200
What is the rhyme scheme of the following poem? Roses are red Violets are blue I need the answers to the test Can I get it from you?
What is A, B, C, B.
200

these 3 terms and synonymous and basically reflect the overall idea of the whole text

What is a claim, thesis, and a controlling idea?

200
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?
300
the narrator is an observer, but can also zoom in on the thoughts and emotions of any character
What is third person omniscient?
300
written conversation between two or more characters and identifiable by quotation marks
What is dialogue?
300
words used in an imaginative way to express ideas that are not literally true
What is figurative language?
300

a statement that presents an opposing viewpoint to your claim and a statement refuting that and addressing the claim 

What is a counterclaim and rebuttal?

300
Identify the figurative language: "The thunder clapped angrily in the distance."
What is personification?
400

how the author creates the passage and puts it together (ex. cause and effect, sequencing, problem-solution, etc.)

What is text structure or organizational patterns?

400

a narrative device in which a storyteller gives an advance hint of what is to come later in the story

What is foreshadow?

400

the feeling or atmosphere created in the reader by a literary work or passage

What is mood?

400

Name at least two things you need to consider and notice when reading an informational text.

What are graphics/figures, sidebars, subtitles, and bolded/italicized words/phrases?

400
Identify the figurative language: "Her hair was as soft as a spider web."
What is a simile?
500

involves placing contrasting elements side-by-side to highlight their differences or create a specific effect, such as emphasizing a character trait or adding humor.

What is juxtaposition?

500

in a plot diagram, this is the series of events that builds tension and a series of events where the tension and conflict decreases (name both)

What is the rising action and falling action?
500

this literary device compares 2 unlike things over multiple lines, stanzas, or even an entire story

What is an extended metaphor?

500

What is the difference between an autobiography and a biography?

What is an autobiography is a true story of a person's life written or told by that person and a biography is a true story of a person's life written or told by someone else?

500
Identify the figurative language: "Alice's aunt ate apples and acorns around August."
What is alliteration?
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