Reading Skills
Types of Literature
Poetry
Literary Skills
Figurative Language
100
what the reading passage is mostly about
What is the main idea?
100
a word used to identify the type of writing (usually broken into 4 main categories)
What is genre?
100
looks like a paragraph but does not usually have complete sentences
What is a stanza?
100
a type of struggle between a character and some other factor
What is conflict?
100
a comparison of two things using "like" or "as"
What is simile?
200
retell the main events of a story in a much shorter way
What is summarize?
200
a type of writing that is meant to be performed by actors (AKA a play)
What is drama?
200
a line or lines in a poem that are repeated
What is a refrain?
200
the reason a writer writes the story or passage
What is author's purpose?
200
giving human qualities to a nonhuman thing
What is personification?
300
use clues and events from the story to guess what is happening in the story
What is inference?
300
a type of writing that provides factual information about a subject
What is nonfiction?
300
a set of rhyming words at the end of some of the lines in a poem
What is the rhyme scheme?
300
how the author feels about the story or something in it
What is tone?
300
an exaggeration used to make a point
What is hyperbole?
400
sentences or events that are used to prove the main idea
What are supporting details?
400
a type of writing that tells a story or expresses the author's feelings through imagery and symbolism
What is poetry?
400
using descriptive language and the 5 senses to create an image in the reader's mind
What is imagery?
400
the general topic, message, or meaning of a story
What is theme?
500
to write a summary in your own words
What is paraphrase?
500
a type of writing that contains made-up characters, events, or both of these
What is fiction?
500
using one thing to represent something else
What is symbolism?
500
the perspective from which the author tells the story
What is point of view?
500
an expression that does not literally mean what is says
What is idiom?
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