Reading 1
Reading 2
Vocabulary 1
Vocabulary 2
Holidays
100

What is a main/central idea? 

What a text is MOSTLY about.

100

Someone who offers opposition to the main character/ protagonist

Antagonist

100

Where a story takes place

Setting

100

A book written about someone famous to teach us about their life.

Biography

100

Of which country is Saint Patrick the patron saint?

Ireland

200

To look at the differences between two things. 

Contrast

200

To quote specifically from the text

Cite

200

This is an example of what type of figurative language: "It's raining cats and dogs!" meaning it's raining really hard.

Idiom

200

This is a genre that has magical elements in the story and is fictional.

Fantasy

200

Which city dyes its river green each St. Patrick's Day?

Chicago 

300

The central message or life lesson

Theme

300

The reason for the writing; to amuse, persuade, or inform a reader.

Author's Purpose

300

A type of figurative language where one thing is compared to another using LIKE or AS. 

I am AS tall AS a tree.

Simile

300

What is a very short story meant to teach a moral or lesson to the reader that feature animals as characters?

Fable 

300

What is sighted to signal the start of Ramadan?

The crescent moon

400

To guess or figure out from the evidence 

Infer

400

You support your answers using proof from the text...

Evidence

400

Comparing one thing to another without using LIKE or AS...

He is a class clown.

Metaphor

400

Use of the same consonant at the beginning of each word:

Barry the bear bent to bounce the basketball.

Alliteration 

400

According to Irish lore, what animal did St. Patrick drive out of Ireland?

Snakes

500

Based on figure of speech; authors/poets use words that mean something different then what they say (like similes, metaphors, idioms, etc).

Figurative Language

500

These are the parts of a text that support the main idea (the how, why, when, etc).

Details

500

When author's make a nonliving thing seem alive:

The flowers danced in the wind.

Personification

500

Using words that imitate a sound like "meow"...

onomatopoeia

500

How many people are said to be observe Ramadan?

A. 250 million

B. 1.8 billion

C. 50 million

D. 1.1 billion

1.8 billion

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