Reading
The event or condition that makes something happen.
What is cause?
The use of comparison to clarify an idea.
What is an analogy?
You _____ information by combining ideas from each text into one unifying idea.
What is synthesizing?
The fictional people that make stories interesting and often memorable.
What are characters?
These make comparisons using key words such as like or as.
What are similes?
This happens as a result of a cause.
What is an effect?
This word refers to the organization or arrangement of ideas in a text.
What is structure?
These are judgments which cannot be proven.
What are opinions?
The details in a story that describe a place and time.
What is the setting?
These make comparisons but omit the key words.
What are metaphors?
This is what you are doing when you look for ways in which things are similar.
What is comparing?
Claims are supported by these. They are reasons and information that show why readers should believe or agree with the claim.
What is evidence?
These can be proven true or untrue. They are used to support claims.
What are facts?
These are longer, extended metaphors.
What are analogies?
This is an extreme exaggeration.
What is a hyperbole?
When you look for ways in which things are different
What is contrasting?
These argue against or explain differing views on the subject of an article.
What are counterclaims?
These allow authors to highlight important information and present data in different ways. Examples are graphs, charts, photographs or timelines.
What are visuals?
The ____ of a story is an idea about the world we live in or about life in general.
What is the theme?
These give human qualities to an animal, inanimate object or element in nature.
What is personification?
This is what you are doing when you make judgments based on information provided in the text or from inferences.
What is drawing a conclusion?
This is used to inform readers and support logical arguments.
What is data?
Evidence can be classified into one of these two categories.
What is valid or invalid?
These are the surrounding details in a sentence or paragraph.
What are context clues?
These use words that create the sounds they describe, such as whish or buzz.
What is an onomatopoeia?