Reading Comprehension
✅ Question: What is the main idea of a text?
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Answer: The central point or message that the author wants the reader to understand.
✅ Question: What are the three most common purposes an author has for writing a text?
✅ Answer: To inform, to entertain, to persuade.
✅ Question: What text structure uses compare and contrast to show differences and similarities between two things?
✅ Answer: Compare and contrast.
✅ Question: What is a simile?
✅ Answer: A comparison using "like" or "as."
✅ Question: What is the term for a statement that can be proven true?
✅ Answer: Fact.
✅ Question: When you summarize a text, what should you leave out?
✅ Answer: Minor details, opinions, or personal interpretations.
✅ Question: If an author uses biased language and one-sided arguments, what is likely their purpose?
✅ Answer: To persuade.
✅ Question: In a cause-and-effect text, what is the "effect"?
✅ Answer: The result or outcome of an event or action.
✅ Question: What is the term for giving human characteristics to non-human things?
✅ Answer: Personification.
✅ Question: What is the term for a statement that reflects someone's personal beliefs or feelings?
✅ Answer: Opinion.
✅ Question: Which type of text structure shows events in time order?
✅ Answer: Chronological order.
✅ Question: How does the author's point of view impact how information is presented?
✅ Answer: It can shape what details are emphasized, what is omitted, and how the reader interprets the text.
✅ Question: Why do authors use headings and subheadings in nonfiction texts?
✅ Answer: To organize information and make it easier for the reader to follow.
✅ Question: If an author uses a symbol (like a dove for peace), what is this literary device called?
✅ Answer: Symbolism.
✅ Question: If a writer provides statistics, expert quotes, or data to support their claim, what are they providing?
✅ Answer: Evidence.
✅ Question: If a passage includes words like "therefore," "as a result," and "consequently," what type of text structure is likely being used?
✅ Answer: Cause and effect.
✅ Question: What is the difference between first-person and third-person point of view?
✅ Answer: First-person uses "I" and is told from the character's perspective; third-person uses "he," "she," or "they" and is from an outside narrator's perspective.
✅ Question: What type of text structure does a problem-solution text use?
✅ Answer: It presents an issue and then offers ways to solve it.
✅ Question: What literary device is used when the audience knows something the characters do not?
✅ Answer: Dramatic irony.
✅ Question: When an author anticipates a counter-argument and addresses it, what is this strategy called?
✅ Answer: Rebuttal.
✅ Question: In a nonfiction text, how can you determine if the author's argument is credible?
✅ Answer: By evaluating the sources they use, checking for bias, and ensuring evidence is fact-based.
✅ Question: If an author writes an argumentative essay about climate change but only uses sources from fossil fuel companies, what is their credibility likely affected by?
✅ Answer: Bias.
✅ Question: When an author uses a flashback in a narrative, what type of structure are they altering?
✅ Answer: Chronological order.
An author writes:
The leaves danced in the wind, whispering secrets of autumn.
This sentence uses two distinct literary devices. Name both.
Personification (the leaves "whispering") and Imagery (visual and auditory descriptions).
✅ Question: What is the term for when an author relies on emotion to persuade rather than evidence?
✅ Answer: Pathos.