Interpretation Exercise
A fake castle
What is hypothetical?
These words name a person, place, or thing
What are nouns?
An example is a Triangle
What is a Shape poem?
Main Idea
What is what the selection is about?
Jungle flowers
What is flora?
These are action words
What are verbs?
I wrote mine on Yellow.
What is a Color poem?
Topic
What is the general idea of the selection?
Anger
What is ire?
These words replace nouns
What are pronouns?
The pattern of the Haiku.
What is 5-7-5?
The key to comprehension
What is recognizing the main idea of a reading passage?
An animal that pulls something
What is draft?
These two words connect sentence parts
What are conjunctions and prepositions?
The first and last lines of the Cinquain.
What are two nouns that are synonyms.
Three other words for main idea
What are main point, gist, central thought, central focus, controlling idea, and thesis
A fire
What is a conflagration?
The object of the preposition can only be these two parts of speech
What are nouns and pronouns?
The fourth line of the Cinquain.
What is a four word phrase?
Details
What are statements that support, develop, and explain a main idea?