Reading Comprehension
This is the main idea or central message of a story.
What is the theme?
The reason an author writes a text (to persuade, inform, or entertain).
What is author’s purpose?
Words surrounding an unfamiliar word that help determine its meaning.
What are context clues?
A comparison using “like” or “as.”
What is a simile?
The subject and verb in a sentence must agree in this.
What is subject-verb agreement?
When a character struggles with their own thoughts or emotions, it’s called this type of conflict.
What is internal conflict?
The attitude or emotion the author conveys through their writing.
What is tone?
A word that means the opposite of another word.
What is an antonym?
An extreme exaggeration, like “I told you a million times.”
What is hyperbole?
A group of words that does not have a subject or verb but still adds detail.
What is a phrase?
This part of a plot diagram introduces the setting, characters, and background information.
What is exposition?
A technique where the author hints at what will happen later in the story.
What is foreshadowing?
A short definition or explanation in parentheses, commas, or dashes within a sentence.
What is an appositive?
A phrase that means something different from its literal meaning, like “raining cats and dogs.”
What is an idiom?
A sentence with two or more independent clauses joined incorrectly.
What is a run-on sentence?
The narrator’s perspective in a story, such as first-person or third-person.
What is point of view?
The way an author organizes ideas in a text (cause/effect, problem/solution, etc.).
What is text structure?
A reference to another literary work, historical event, or famous person.
What is an allusion?
A repeated consonant sound at the beginning of words, like “Peter Piper picked a peck.”
What is alliteration?
The process of improving ideas, organization, and clarity in writing.
What is revising?
A comparison between two things that are alike in some way, often used in nonfiction texts to clarify an idea.
What is an analogy?
The use of specific words, phrases, or sentence patterns to make writing more engaging.
What is the author’s craft?
A dictionary-like section at the end of a book that explains key terms.
What is a glossary?
When a non-human object is given human traits.
What is personification?
The part of writing where you correct grammar, spelling, and punctuation errors.
What is editing?