Reading Skills
Reading Skills
Writing Skills
Writing Skills
Poetry
100
a developing idea about what will happen next in a story.
What is a prediction/
100
writers make straight forward statements about a character.
What is direct characterization?
100
when you examine the similarities and differences between two or more things
What is compare and contrast?
100
used in poetry to tell where to pause - comma for a slight pause, colon, semicolon or a dash for longer pause and a period for longest pause.
What is punctuation in poetry?
200
point of view, or viewpoint from which the author writes.
What is author's perspective?
200
writers present a character's thoughts, words, and actions and reveal what others say and think about the character.
What is indirect characterization.
200
casual or familiar way of writing
What is informal language?
200
type of paper using information based on facts
What is research writing?
200
stressed words in poetry cause this.
What is rhythm?
300
the main reason an author writes a literary work - to entertain, inform or persuade.
What is the author's purpose?
300
logical assumptions about something not directly stated in the text
What is making inferences?
300
two or more sentences put together with a conjunction (FANBOY)
What is a compound sentence
300
An essay that examines the relationship between events, explaining how one event or situation causes another.
What is a cause and effect essay?
300
the root word in miniscule
What is min?
400
specific words or phrases that stir up positive or negative feelings
What are connotations?
400
the most important point in a literary work
What is the main idea?
400
a kind of verb added to another verb to make a single verb phrase.
What is a helping verb?
400
essay that describes a clear set of steps to achieve a result.
What is a problem and solution essay?
400
repetition of sounds at the ends of words
What is rhyme?
500
words found in the text of a work, surrounding an unfamiliar word to help you determine the meaning of a word you many not know.
What are context clues?
500
a decision or opinion you reach based on details in a literary work.
What is drawing conclusions?
500
language that appeals to one or more of the five senses.
What is sensory language?
500
narrator takes part in the action of the story and refers to himself or herself as "I".
What is first-person point of view
500
tells a story in verse
What is a narrative poem?
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