Genres
Elements of Literature
Grammar
Literary Devices
T/F MSP Strategy
100
A story which has imaginary characters and events.
What is fiction?
100
The time and place of a story
What is the setting?
100
A name of a person, place or thing
What is a noun?
100
Perspective from which a story is told (clues words are "I" "me" "they"
What is point of view?
100
True or False: You should preview the selection and questions before reading the entire selection on the MSP test.
What is true?
200
A story about a real person's life written by another person
What is a biography
200
All of the main events of the story
What is the plot?
200
A word which takes the place of a noun
What is a pronoun
200
To entertain, inform or explain
What is author's purpose?
200
True or false: You should not answer every question on the Reading MSP test.
What is false?
300
A story which teaches a lesson and usually has animals as main characters.
What is fable?
300
The people and/or animals about whom a story is written
What are the characters?
300
A word that tells more about a noun
What is an adjective?
300
Say how things are alike and different
What is compare and contrast?
300
True or false: It is not a good idea to reread parts of a selection in order to find answers to the questions.
What is false?
400
Writing which is true/factual.
What is nonfiction?
400
The problem in the story
What is the conflict?
400
A word which tells more about a verb.
What is an adverb?
400
words around another word that give meaning to the unknown word
What are context clues?
400
True or false: If the question asks you to support your answer with details from the selection you need only write your opinion.
What is false?
500
A story which has magical elements.
What is a fantasy?
500
Solution to the story's problem
What is the resolution?
500
The verb or verb phrase in a sentence
What is the predicate?
500
to look closely at the parts of a reading selection (character, setting, plot, etc)
What is analyze?
500
True or False: Taking time to read selections and questions more than once is what a good reader does.
What is true?
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