Reading Prose & Poetry
This is where (the place) and when (the time) a story happens.
What is setting?
This is a comparison of two different things using the words "like" or "as." (Example: "He is as strong as a lion.")
What is a simile?
These are parts of a text like bold words, titles, maps, and pictures that help you find information quickly.
What are text features?
The Latin root "aud" (in words like audio, audience, and auditorium) means this action.
What is to hear or listen?
What do we call a word that names a person, place, or thing?
What is a noun?
This is the lesson or message about life that the author wants you to learn from a story.
What is the theme?
This is giving human feelings or actions to non-human things. (Example: "The wind whispered.")
What is personification?
This is the most important message or main point that an author wants you to learn from a text.
What is the central idea?
This is the feeling a word gives you. (Example: "Home" feels warm, but "house" is just a building.)
What is connotation?
What is the word that describes an action (like run, jump, or eat)?
What is a verb?
This is the point of view when the narrator is a character in the story and uses words like "I," "me," and "my."
What is first-person point of view?
This is writing what someone else wrote, but using your own simpler words to show you understand it.
What is paraphrasing?
This is the author's purpose when they write to make you agree with their opinion or change your mind.
What is to persuade?
The Greek root "chron" (in words like chronological and synchronize) means this concept.
What is time?
A complete sentence must start with this kind of letter and end with this kind of punctuation.
What is a capital letter and a period?
This is the most exciting part or the turning point of a story's plot.
What is the climax?
This is a way to make people believe you by using facts, numbers, and clear thinking.
What is logos (appeal to logic)?
This is when an author writes to give you facts and information about a topic.
What is to inform?
This is the real dictionary meaning of a word.
What is denotation?
What do we call the person, place, or thing that the sentence is about?
What is the subject?
This is a group of lines in a poem, similar to a paragraph in a story.
What is a stanza?
This is a way to make people believe you by using feelings, like making them feel sad, happy, or scared.
What is pathos (appeal to emotion)?
This is when you use clues in the text and what you already know to guess something that is not directly stated.
What is an inference?
Putting "un-" or "dis-" at the start of a word makes it mean the opposite. (Example: happy -> unhappy)
What is "not" or "opposite of"?
Which punctuation mark do you use at the end of a question?
What is a question mark?