When you compare two unlike things using like or as.
What is a simile?
100
What organizational pattern states the action that caused a result? Ex: Since Joe studied for his math test, he earned an 'A'.
What is cause and effect?
100
In this reading strategy you write or recite the author's main idea and only the most important information.
What is summarizing?
100
This genre is characterized by advanced technology and/or a futuristic setting
What is science fiction?
200
The most exciting part of the story (highest point of action)
What is the climax?
200
Words that represent sounds
What is onomatopoeia
200
What organizational pattern tells how two items are similar and different? Ex: Bob and Bill both have talents in basketball, but Bob has more talent in baseball than Bill.
What is compare and contrast?
200
In this reading strategy readers use information from a text (including titles, headings, pictures, and diagrams) and their own personal experiences to anticipate what they are about to read (or what comes next).
What is making predictions?
200
What is the perspective from which a story is told; may be first person, third person, or less commonly, second person?
What is point of view?
300
Part of the story where the reader is given background information and characters are introduced
What is exposition
300
The road was a ribbon of moonlight is an example of
What is metaphor?
300
What organizational pattern tells the order in which events happen? Ex: First, next, then, and finally
What is cause and effect?
300
What are three types of connections you can make while reading?
What are text to self, text to text, and text to world?
300
The four main reasons an author writes
What are to inform, to persuade, to express, to entertain?
400
In this part of a story all conflicts are solved
What is resolution?
400
A technique in which extreme exaggeration is used for effect
What is hyperbole?
400
The author states a problem and lists one or more possible solutions
What is problem and solution
400
In this reading strategy you draw conclusions based on evidence from the text?
What is making inferences?
400
What is an account of a person's life written by that person?
What is an autobiography?
500
The message about life the author wants to convey in a literary work
What is theme?
500
Back to the drawing board is an example of what type of figurative language?
What is an idiom?
500
What organizational pattern tells the order in which events happen? Ex: First, next, then, and finally
What is chronological or sequential?
500
In this reading strategy, students highlight, jot down their connections, questions, and or thoughts as they read?
What is annotating/marking the text? (Close reading is also an acceptable response).
500
When an author creates a vivid picture in the mind of the reader by using words, it is called ______. Ex: Smiling, Ruth skipped cheerfully under the sun's golden, warm rays.