combining background knowledge with information that you preview to make an educated guess about what the author will write
What is predicting?
100
What answers the questions"to whom" or "for whom" or "for what" after an action verb
What is an indirect object?
100
“Men sell the wedding bells.”
What is assonance?
100
get
What is procure?
200
a topic or main idea that runs throughout the text
What is the theme?
200
reading between the lines; making an assumption about something the author is implying but does not come out and directly state
What is inferring?
200
Graeson's favorite mascot, Mackerel Jordan,eats people.
"Mackerel Jordan" is this type of phrase.
What is an appositive?
200
the goal or object of a person's actions:
What is motive?
200
increasing, enlarging
What is augmenting?
300
a person or problem that worsens the main conflict
What is a complication?
300
when readers think about what they will read, are reading, and have read, and inquire answers, both facts and opinions, about the text
What is questioning?
300
Tell me what "hand" is in the following sentence.
Kaboom slapped Grae's hand at the game.
What is a direct object?
300
"What a pity that youth must be wasted on the young."
What is a paradox?
300
brave and noble
What is gallant?
400
the author gives clues that ultimately reveal what a character is like
What is indirect characterization?
400
when readers observe the text and explain the deeper meaning the author is intending; readers must back up their interpretations with textual evidence and explanation of symbolic meaning
What is analyzing
400
"therefore" is an example of this.
What is a conjunctive adverb?
400
At the drop of a hat. //// Beat around the Bush. //// Back to the drawing board.
What is an idiom?
400
extreme poverty
What is penury?
500
the character in the story that causes conflict
What is the antagonist?
500
when the reader interacts with the text, thinking about how their own personal life experiences, other texts they have read/watched, and worldly events relate to what they are currently reading
What is connecting?
500
I am going on vacation I hope to see the sun and swim in the pool. ///// is an example.
What is a fused run-on?
500
A sudden reversal of events for the main character