Before Reading Strategies
Another word for the FICTION GENRE.
What is LITERATURE?
This means "word for word from the text."
What is CITE?
This is the TIME and PLACE of a story.
What is SETTING?
This refers to a words EMOTIONAL MEANING.
What is CONNOTATION?
This POV uses words like "I, me," and "my."
What is FIRST PERSON POV?
This is an example of a NONFICTION TEXT.
What is your Math book or a newspaper?
This is your ARGUMENT or statement of belief.
What is CLAIM?
This is what 'dives the PLOT' of a story.
What is CONFLICT?
This is when an inanimate object is given HUMAN TRAITS.
What is PERSONIFICATION?
This POV uses words like "you" and "yours."
What is SECOND PERSON POV?
You should read these in a NONFICTION PASSAGE to determine what the passage is about.
What are the title, subheadings ,and pictures?
This is information that is IMPLIED but not DIRECTLY STATED.
What is IMPLICIT INFORMATION?
These are adjectives that describe a CHARACTER.
What is a TRAIT?
"Love is a rose" is an example of this.
What is METAPHOR?
The narrator is OUTSIDE of the story and NO character's thoughts are revealed.
What is THIRD PERSON OBJECTIVE?
You should ask yourself the type of ____________ an author is using when you read a FICTIONAL passage (HINT: either internal or external).
Conflict
This is information that is DIRECTLY STATED and leaves no room for uncertainty.
What is EXPLICIT INFORMATION?
This is a person (or sometimes a thing) in a story.
What is a CHARACTER?
This is EXAGGERATION for EFFECT.
What is HYPERBOLE?
The narrator is OUTSIDE of the story and only ONE character's thoughts are revealed.
What is THIRD PERSON LIMITED?
When reading POETRY, ask yourself what is the ____________ in the poem? (HINT: What you touch, smell, see, taste, hear...)
Imagery
Without this, your CLAIM is just an OPINION (HINT: this supports your CLAIM.)
What is EVIDENCE?
An author INDIRECTLY CHARACTERIZES a character by doing these things.
What is a characters SPEECH, THOUGHTS, EFFECT on OTHERS, ACTIONS, LOOKS (or "STEAL")?
This is the DICTIONARY DEFINITION of a word.
What is a word's DENOTATION?
For this POV, the narrator is ALL KNOWING.
What is THIRD PERSON OMNISCIENT?