Vocabulary (NGB)
Vocabulary (11)
Writing Strategies
Reading Strategies
Elements of a Story
100
A Spanish word meaning "son"
What is hijo?
100
Not able to be seen
What is invisible?
100
Comparing two unlike things using "like, as, or resembles"
What is a simile?
100
Being able to use your personal experience to relate to a text
What is connection?
100
The people/animals/toys that make a story happen
What are characters?
200
Not paying attention
What is distracted?
200
Torn and in bad condition
What is raggedy?
200
Comparing two unlike things without using "like, as, or resembles"
What is a metaphor?
200
The feeling you get when you read a word like "raggedy"
What is a negative connotation?
200
The events that occur in a story
What is the plot?
300
A special duty
What is mission?
300
Shaking and hitting together
What is rattling?
300
When an author uses a character's thoughts or actions to reveal their personality
What is characterization?
300
A battle or struggle that goes on inside a character's mind
What is internal conflict?
300
Where and when a story takes place
What is the setting?
400
Old-fashioned style of Mexican music
What is conjunto?
400
Causing a feeling on the skin that makes you want to rub or scratch
What is itchy?
400
Enhancing a phrase or sentence by adding WORD POWER to answer questions like "How many?" "What kind?" and "Which one?"
What is Adjective Phrase?
400
A battle that goes on between characters in a story
What is external conflict?
400
The battles that occur in a story
What is conflict?
500
A timepiece that runs without stopping
What is a perpetual clock?
500
Rachel says that getting older is "like an onion or like the rings inside a tree". This is an example of what kind of figurative language?
What is a simile?
500
The use of words and phrases that appeal to the five senses
What is imagery?
500
Combining your personal experience with information from the text to make an educated guess
What is making an inference?
500
The main idea or point of a story
What is the theme?
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