A word formed from the initial letters in a phrase.
What is an Acronym
100
words are used in quick succession and begin with letters belonging to the same sound group. Whether it is the consonant sound or a specific vowel group
What is Alliteration
100
Close and Critical reading, where you underline and highlight and take notes.
What is CCR?
200
A describing word.
What is Adjective?
200
A casual reference in literature to a person, place, event, or another passage of literature, often without explicit identification.
What is an Allusion
200
helps to establish a relationship based on similarities between two concepts or ideas.
What is an Analogy
200
the skill to underline key points and circle words you may not know.
What is Active reading
300
A person, place or thing.
What is a Noun?
300
Ability to speak 2 languages
What is Bilingual
300
words such that the meaning implied by a sentence or word is actually different from the literal meaning.
What is Irony
300
device wherein the author depicts the occurrence of specific events to the reader, which have taken place before the present time the narration is following, or events that have happened before the events that are currently unfolding in the story
What is Flashback
400
A word that emphasizes an adjective.
What is an adverb?
400
A non-fictional account of a person's life--usually a celebrity, an important historical figure, or a writer.
What is Biography
400
meaning or identity ascribed to one subject by way of another, one subject is implied to be another so as to draw a comparison between their similarities and shared traits.
What is Metaphor
400
use of indicative word or phrases and hints that set the stage for a story to unfold and give the reader a hint of something that is going to happen without revealing the story or spoiling the suspense.
What is Foreshadowing
500
The "voice" that speaks or tells a story.
What is a Narrator?
500
A non-fictional account of a person's life--usually a celebrity, an important historical figure, or a writer. (Written by the actual person)
What is Autobiography
500
referring to the practice of drawing parallels or comparisons between two unrelated and dissimilar things, people, beings, places and concepts
What is Similie
500
translates into ‘double walker’. It refers to a character in the story that is actually a counterfeit or a copy of a genuine character.