What is the passage mostly about. The author's message to the reader about a topic.
100
Protagonist
What is the main character in a text?
100
Chronology
What is the order of events in which things occur?
100
metaphor
What is a comparision that does not use like or as?
100
Progressive Verb tenses
What is the tense that tells you when an action happens?
Example: was giving
were giving
am giving
are giving
will be giving
200
Details
What are:
Examples or comparisions that explain and support the central idea.
200
Plot
What are the details that make up a story, a beginning, middle and end, and usually has a conflict?
200
Compare and contrast
What is when you think about how things are similar and different?
200
idiom
What is a common expression that does not use the literal meanings of the words it uses?
Example: Driving me up the wall.
200
Modal auxillary
What is a helping verb that helps the main verb express an action?
300
Summarizing
What is when you describe the main ideas and the important details of a passage. (In your own words)
300
Theme
What is an idea or lesson about life or the message behind the story's events?
300
Cause and Effect
What is how one event leads to another?
300
adage
What is a short saying about human nature or about how people behave?
Example: Don't count your chickens before they hatch.
300
Prepositional Phrase
What is a word that tells about position, location, direction, or duration (length of time)?
Examples: about, among, above, after, below, behind, during, into, under, without
400
Inferencing
What are the educated guesses based on the text and what your know?
400
Poetry
What is, may be made of rhythm, rhyme, alliteration, stanzas, and lines?
400
Problem and Solution
What is when you think about the conflict in the text and why or how it occurs, then think about the resolution?
400
Antonym
What is a word that has opposite, or almost opposite meanings?
400
Context Clues
What are words or sentences that surround an unkown word?
500
Point of View
What is the view from which a story is told; first-person or third person?
500
Allusions
What is a reference to a person, place or event from history or mythology?
500
Primary and Seconday Sources
What is written about an event as the time the event took place or an account of an event which interprets the information provided?
500
hyperbole
What is when exaggration is used in text?
500
Roots and Affixes
What is the main part of the word that gives the word its meaning?
What is a group of letters added to a root word (prefixes and suffixes) to change the meaning of the word?