Reading Terms
Exposition
What is the beginning - introducing the characters, setting, and conflict ?
Thesis
What is the central idea for an entire text ?
Noun
What is a name of a person, place or thing ?
Nonfiction
What is prose writing that is based on facts, real events, and real people, such as biography or history?
Contrast and Contradictions
What is a sharp contrast between what we would expect and what we observe the character doing?
Rising Action
What is the action that occurs to reach the climax?
Evidence
What is the information that supports a thesis; may include facts, quotations, examples, statistics, or narrations of personal experiences?
Verb
What action does the noun perform?
Drama
What is a play for theater, radio, or television?
Tough Questions
What is a question that its answer usually reveals something important ?
Climax
what is the turning point of the story - the peak ?
Conclusion
What is a statement of belief based on evidence, experience, and reasoning? A valid conclusion.
article
What is a, an and the ?
Narrative
What is a spoken or written account of connected events; a story ?
Memory Moment
What is a memory that explains or provides insight into the current situation
Conflict
What is internal or external clash a character comes across (argument with nature, person, society)
audience
What is the purpose for writing, who the author has in mind to write for
adjective
What is a word that describes a noun
Poetry
What is a literary work in which special intensity is given to the expression of feelings and ideas by the use of distinctive style and rhythm/rhyme ?
Words of the Wiser
What is an older character who offers sage advice to the main character? Insight about life
Resolution
what is the ending or resolving a conflict ?
purpose
What is the reason for writing ?
adverb
What is a word that describes the verb?
Fable
What is a short story, typically with animals as characters, conveying a moral ?
Word Gaps
What is a vocabulary that is unfamiliar to the reader- a word with multiple meanings, a rare or technical word