Literary Terms 1
Nonfiction
Figurative Language
Test Strategies
Vocabulary
100
The category or type of literature. This includes fantasy, realistic fiction and others.
What is genre?
100
A statement that can be proved.
What is fact?
100
The comparison of one thing to another using like or as.
What is simile?
100
The first step when reading a selection.
What is read the title and decide if it is fiction or nonfiction?
100
Words that are spelled the same, but have different meanings, pronunciations, or origins.
What is homograph?
200
The feeling that a literary work gives to readers. Writers use words to create this.
What is mood?
200
A statement that reflects the writer's belief.
What is opinion?
200
When an animal or object is given human qualities or characteristics.
What is personification?
200
Multiple choice question strategy
What is read all the choices before selecting the best answer?
200
Prefixes that are added to base words to mean the opposite of the base word.
What is anti-, non-, mis-, il-, ir-, un-?
300
The vantage point from which a story is told.
What is point of view?
300
The point that the author wants the reader to remember the most.
What is main idea?
300
A direct comparison between two unlike things.
What is metaphor?
300
The R.A.D. process.
What is restate, answer the question, and add details?
300
These suffixes are added to base and root words to form new words meaning (having a quality).
What is -able, -ible?
400
The statement about life that the author wants to convey to the reader.
What is theme?
400
A relationship between two or more events in which on event brings about another.
What is cause and effect?
400
The use of words that sound like the noises they describe.
What is onomatopoeia?
400
Check over each answer and make sure it makes sense.
What is what you should do before moving on to the next question?
400
These suffixes are added to a base or root word to form a noun.
What is -ion, -tion, -ation?
500
The attitude the writer takes toward audience, the subject, or the character.
What is tone?
500
The author's perspective, or opinion, on an issue or topic.
What is viewpoint?
500
A common phrase made up of words that can't be understood by their literal, or ordinary meanings.
What is idiom?
500
This is what you do before you turn in the test.
What is look over every page of the test and answer booklet?
500
Prefixes added to base and root words to make the word relate to position.
What is under-, sub-, super-, inter-, intra-, mid-?
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