What is a figure of speech in which human characteristics are attributed to an animal or an inanimate object?
Example: The sun smiled down on us.
Personification
100
What is it called when an author presents a dilemma and also suggests a way to solve it?
Problem - Solution
100
The means an author uses to develop the personality of a character (appearance, speech, thoughts, actions, thoughts/feelings of others)
Characterization
100
Quickly looking over the title, headings, illustrations, and captions of a text before you start to read.
Previewing
100
A letter or group of letters that comes at the beginning of a word and changes the word’s meaning.
Prefix
200
What is a figure of speech that compares two things without using like or as?
Example: The room was a beehive of activity.
Metaphor
200
What is it called when the author explains why something happened and explains the results of that action?
Cause - Effect
200
The time and place in which the story occurs.
Setting
200
Making a guess about what might happen next based on clues from the text.
Predicting
200
A letter or group of letters that comes at the end of a word and changes the word’s meaning.
Suffix
300
What is a figure of speech in which one thing is compared to another, that is different in many ways, by the use of as or like?
Ex. The professor is as wise as an owl.
Simile
300
The author presents events in the order in which they happened. ( time order)
First……
Next…..
Last…..
Sequence...Chronological Order
300
The underlying meaning of the text.
Theme
300
Deciding what the writer wanted to achieve:
To teach or inform,
To convince the audience about something,
To amuse or entertain
Determining Author's Purpose
300
A word or part of a word from which other words are formed.
Root Word
400
What is the repetition of the same initial letter, sound or group of sounds in a series of words?
Ex. The snake slipped silently through the sand.
Alliteration
400
The author asks a series of questions and gives a response for each.
Question & Answer
400
The general atmosphere or prevailing emotion of a text.
Mood
400
Making reasonable conclusions based on available facts and clues.
Inferencing
400
A word that has more than one meaning. You must pay close attention to the context in which the word is used.
Example: saw, fall, bark, slip, lean
Multiple Meaning Words
500
What is a figure of speech consisting of an extreme exaggeration not meant to be taken literally?
Ex. Mother shopped in an million stores today.
Hyperbole
500
The author tells how two things are alike and how they are different.
Compare - Contrast
500
An author’s attitude toward the subject matter and audience.
Tone
500
Figuring out the meaning of a word by looking at the way it is used in the sentence.
Using Context Clues
500
A letter or group of letters that comes at the beginning or the end of a word.