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the person who wrote the story
a. narrator
b. author
c. audience
d. illustrator
b. author
the people or animals in a story or poem
a. setting
b. traits
c. characters
d. conclude
c. characters
When are clues from the text that support the inferences that a reader makes? ___________
a. evidence
b. summary
c. main idea
d. details
a. evidence
The ___________, or story's message, was that you should always tell the truth.
a. theme
b. main idea
c. conflict
d. text structure
a. theme
When the actors read the script, or play, they knew where to walk and how loud to speak from the ___________.
a. props
b. playwright
c. dialogue
d. stage directions
d. stage directions
an item that is the same as other things in the group
a. fact
b. opinion
c. example
d. support
c. example
the readers of the writing
a. audience
b. narrator
c. illustrator
d. speaker
a. audience
When you add the_________________ "-ed" to the end of a word it makes it past tense.
a. prefix
b. suffix
c. affix
d. root word
b. suffix
Ever wonder why we have lightning? Read the __________ of Zeus to learn why some old societies believed we did.
a. fable
b. diary
c. myth
d. biography
c. myth
The two actors talked a lot to each other on stage. They had a lot of ____________.
a. stage directions
b. props
c. dialogue
d. scenes
c. dialogue
an educated guess
a. supporting details
b. context clues
c. climax
d. inference
d. inference
the organization the author uses to show how his ideas are connected
a. time-line
b. cause
c. point of view
d. text structure
d. text structure
Most fiction stories follow the same series of events, or ___________.
a. climax
b. trait
c. plot
d. cause and effect
Jerry wanted to learn all about Martin Luther King, Jr. so he had to read a __________ about him.
a. library book
b. biography
c. website
d. folktale
b. biography
After reading the passage, Taylor used the text clues with her background knowledge to __________ that bats fly at night.
a. observe
b. persuade
c. conclude
d. contrast
c. conclude
restating the main idea and important details in fewer words
a. summary
b. evidence
c. supporting details
d. context clues
a. summary
the graphic ways that a writer gives the reader information (pictures, diagrams, photos)
a. headings
b. text features
c. cause and effect
d.expression
b. text features
If a poet writes a word over and over, they are using what? __________
a. rhythm
b. rhyme
c. lines
d. repetition
d. repetition
Ms. Smith enjoyed teaching about all book types, or _________________.
a. folktales
b. fairy tales
c. text features
d. genre
d. genre
The story of Anansi, the spider, has been passed down for generations. There are many lessons to be learned. It is considered a _____________.
a. myth
b. folktale
c. fairy tale
d. fable
b. folktale
how the author sees something (his perspective) and affects the way he writes about it
a. conflict
b. resolution
c. predictions
d. point of view
d. point of view
the pattern of rhythm in a poem
a. rhyme
b. stanza
c. meter
d. repetition
c. meter
When the poet writes words that are meant to pull at your sight and taste, they are using _______.
a. repetition
b. imagery
c. rhythm
d. rhyme
b. imagery
Paul's assignment was to write the story of Little Red Riding Hood as ______________. He had to put the story into a poem style.
a. lyrical poetry
b. narrative poetry
c. free verse
d. point-of-view
b. narrative poetry
"Mike went to Joe's house after school to play video games" is which point of view? ________
a. first person
b. third person
c. second person
d. third person omniscient
b. third person