Test Terms A
What word means to notice similarities?
Compare
What word means to notice differences?
Contrast
What is the sequence of events in a story?
Plot
What is where/when a story takes place?
Setting
Comparing using "like" or "as"
Analyze
What word means to tell a shortened version about something in your own words?
Summarize
What is the reader's feeling?
What is the author's attitude?
Tone
What is a metaphor?
Comparing without using "like" or "as"
What word means to explain something with details?
Describe
What word means to make an idea clear by giving reasons/details?
Explain
What is word choice?
Diction
What is a struggle between opposing forces?
Conflict
What is personification?
Giving human characteristics to nonhuman things
What word means to create/make something new, or grow?
Develop
What word means to notice and name something specific?
Identify
What is showing what a character is like?
Indirect Characterization
What is telling what a character is like?
Direct Characterization
What is repetition?
repeating words and phrases for an effect
What word means to make an educated guess?
Infer
What word means to decide how good/bad something is?
Evaluate
What is the word for the moral/message of a story?
(Universal -- can be applied to pretty much any story)
Theme
What is the word for what a story/article is mostly about?
(Unique -- can only be applied to the specific text)
Main idea/Central Idea
What is allusion?
a reference to something well-known (a character, event, or story)