Reading Skill
Literary Analysis
Vocabulary
Grammar
Writing
100
Making an assumption about something in a story.
What is an inference?
100
This is the perspective from which the story is told.
What is the point of view?
100
The root in the word introspective.
What is -spec-?
100
What it is called when the subject of the sentence and the verb of the sentence match in number and tense.
What is subject-verb agreement?
100
Another word for the literary term dialogue.
What is a conversation?
200
Helps a person make an inference.
What are details in a story?
200
"Yesterday my mother and I went to the county fair. We looked at pony's with their fancy saddles and then I won a teddy bear from one of the carnival games. It was the best day ever!" The perspective from which the story is told.
What is first person point of view?
200
The meaning of the root word -nunc-.
What is to speak or spoke?
200
You use these to elements when forming the perfect tense of a verb.
What is a form of the helping verb have and the past participle of the verb?
200
In this type of essay the writer talks about his own thoughts and feelings about a subject.
What is a personal essay?
300
When evaluating persuasive appeals you need to separate these two things.
What are arguments that appeal to emotions and arguments that appeal to the mind?
300
"Jeanine and Dana walked across the rickety bridge that spanned across the chasm that lead up to the castle. They knew that in a few moments they would be facing horrors they never even imagined existed before." The perspective from which this story is told.
What is third person point of view?
300
The meaning of the word mistrusted.
What is not to believe someone because of past experience or what you have heard about them?
300
How the VERB in this sentence should correctly be used "We goes to the movies every weekend."
What is "We GO to the movies every weekend."?
300
Another name for a small fictional narrative.
What is a short story?
400
This advertising technique uses words that cannot be proved but sound important, for example "the hottest new sneaker".
What is loaded language?
400
Examples of pronouns that tell you that a story is told in first person point of view.
What is I, we, us, etc...?
400
The definition of the prefix per-.
What is throughout?
400
How the SUBJECT in this sentence should be used correctly. "The dog run around the yard everyday when their master let them out."
What is "The DOGS run around the yard everyday when their masters let them out."
400
This is an example of... "Hey Annabel, what are we doing this weekend?" "I don't know Lenore what do you think we should do?" "Hmmm, I am not sure. Maybe we should discuss it with Big Head and Waldorf." "Yeah, that sounds like a good plan to me."
What is a dialogue?
500
These are used so often in advertising because visual appeals are highly persuasive.
What are picture?
500
A generalization made from a story about life or people.
What is the theme of the story?
500
The meaning of denounced.
What is to accuse or to point out?
500
"Mrs. Applebottom walk to the supermarket after church every Sunday to buy groceries." The error in this sentence.
What is walk should be walks?
500
This is an example of ... While I was in Kenya I noticed how desolate the lives of some of the native African people were. They had no way of getting fresh water to their village because of their broken well equipment. We should be helping them rebuild their equipment because they do not have the resources to do so. We should take action before they give up hope.
What is a personal essay?
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