Reading Skills
The term for taking notes as you read.
What is annotating?
Identify the figurative language: She farted so loud the whole school heard it.
What is a hyperbole?
WHY an author writes a certain piece
Author's purpose
This is often used in poetry to illustrate abstract ideas and "beautify" the words of a poem to give it deeper meaning.
What is figurative language?
The author's main point; last sentence of your introduction.
What is a thesis statement?
Identify the figurative language: "Her hair was as soft as a spider web."
What is a simile?
the narrator is an observer, but can also zoom in on the thoughts and emotions of any character
What is third person omniscient?
conversation between two or more characters and
What is dialogue?
What is the mood of the following stanza?
Those houses haunt in which we leave
Something undone. It is not those
Great words or silence of love
That spread their echoes through a place
And fill the locked-up, unbreathed gloom.
Ghosts do not haunt with any face
What is creepy, eerie, intriguing, scary, serious
When writing an informational essay, this is the strategy to use.
What is RACECES?
Identify the figurative language: "The thunder clapped angrily in the distance."
What is personification?
how the author creates the passage and puts it together (ex. cause and effect, sequencing, problem-solution, etc.)
What is author's organization?
a paraphrased short text that describes the original text must include important information from the story
What is a summary?
Name at least two things you need to consider and notice when reading an informational text.
What are graphics/images, sidebars, subtitles, and bolded/italicized words/phrases, footnotes, subheadings.
Identify the figurative language: "That's just a band aid to the problem, not a real solution."
What is a metaphor?
a reflection of a writer's or speaker's attitude toward a subject of a poem, story, or other literary work
What is tone?
Name three parts of the linear plot diagram.
What is exposition/rising action/climax/falling action and resolution
What is the term for the pattern in poetry (hint: abab, aabb)
What is rhyme scheme?
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?
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 idiom?