literary term
Skill/Verb/Key Detail
Definitions
Key of Knowledge
Reading
100

What genre consists of lines, stanzas and can rhyme but doesn't have to

What is (a) poem/poetry

100

To tell you about

What is to understand

100

to understand

to tell you about


100

to guess

what is to infer

100

What do you call the person who is telling the story?

Who is the narrator

200

 Another name for a drawing

What is an illustration

200

How the story ends based on what the character learned

What is the lesson

200

to support

to go with

200

How do you answer questions with a Part A and a Part B?

Part B goes with Part A.  The answers should relate to each other.

200

True or False. 

 All poems have to rhyme

False

300

The format of a passage

What are paragraphs

300

The big idea of a fictional story

What is the central message/theme

300

to describe

what do you see or what is said in the text

300

What is the author's point of view in literature

How the author feels

300

Most fiction stories have a problem and a...

solution

400

Sentences beginning with who, how, what, when and where

What is ask and answer questions

400

To find the meaning of an unknown word

What are context clues

400

Explain what "why" means

what is the reason

400

What is a context clue?

A strategy used to find the meaning of an unknown word.

400

What is alliteration

When words start with the same letter

500

Stories written to entertain

What is fiction

500

How a character thinks, feels and behaves based on their actions in the story 

What are character traits

500

The meaning of "important details"

what is the reason something is in the story

500

What makes a fable different from other short stories

It teaches you a lesson

500

My pet guinea pig is a herbivore, so I only feed him plants, never meat.  Herbivore means:

eats plants only

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