Reading Skills
Fiction
Poetry
Reading Skills 2
Practice Makes Perfect
100

This POV uses "you/your" pronouns and can be found in directions

What is 2nd person POV

100
the character or force in conflict with a main character
What is antagonist?
100

The voice of a poem

Who is the speaker?

100

Name the text structure based on signal words: issue, help, solve, resolution, challenge, answer

What is problem and solution

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 abbreviation for author's purpose and what each letter stands for

What is PIE, to persuade, inform, or entertain?

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
Define connotation and denotation

Connotation refers to the feeling/vibe a word has and denotation is the literal definition of a word

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 not a character in the story, but knows the thoughts and feelings of ONE character 

What is third person limited?

300
written conversation between two or more characters and identifiable by quotation marks
What is dialogue?
300

reuses words, phrases, images, or structures in a poem multiple times

What is repetition?

300

Occurs when the audience or reader knows something that the characters do not

What is dramatic irony

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 author's organization?
400

Read the following sentence and where it belongs in the plot:

 Walking home from a movie, Ponyboy is attacked by a group of Socs, the greasers’ rivals, who are upper-class youths from the West Side of town.

What is the exposition

400
the feeling or atmosphere created in the reader by a literary work or passage
What is mood?
400

True or false: When an author italicizes or bolds a word, it is to emphasize a point or show a concept/definition unfamiliar to the reader. 

What is true

400
Identify the figurative language: "Her hair was as soft as a spider web."
What is a simile?
500
a reflection of a writer's or speaker's attitude toward a subject of a poem, story, or other literary work
What is tone?
500

Read the following sentence and where it belongs in the plot:

Mr. Leonard Meade is told he'll be taken to the Psychiatric Ward for Regressive Tendencies for walking and not owning a television. 

what is the climax

500
Name the four most common types of poetry and give one characteristic of each.
What is epic (a poem with a story line and follows the adventures of a hero; usually long and have rhythm and repetition), narrative (a poem that tells a story but is much shorter than an epic poem; usually follows the plot diagram), lyrical (a poem that expresses thoughts and emotions and contains rhyme and rhythm/meter), and free verse (a poem that has no rhyme or regular rhythm).
500

Name three types of text features you could see on your SOL test:

What is a footnote, sidebar, illustration, heading, subheading, bold/italic words

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