Use the Clues: Inferencing
A group of women walked out of the dark building. A few were carrying tissues. As they exited into the sunlight some put on sunglasses as they headed to their cars.
What can you infer about where the women are?
Leaving a sad movie
Microplastics are easily ingested by marine life and have entered the human food chain. Reducing these plastics involves a reduction of plastic use and improved waste management.
Problem/solution
Her eyes are as black as coal.
Simile
Gives the background information such as setting, characters, and problem in a story.
Exposition
When you shorten the main ideas in a text.
Summarizing
She drove into her driveway and saw the crisscrossed lines across the lawn.
What can you infer?
Someone had mowed the lawn
Amphibians (frogs, etc.) and reptiles (snakes, lizards...) are cold-blooded vertebrates, but differ in skin, breathing, and life cycles.
Compare/contrast
I've told you a million times not to worry!
Hyperbole
Also called the turning point in a story (when the problem starts to change)
Climax
The main opinion an author is trying to prove.
Claim
Katherine held the wash cloth tightly on her hand and told the children not to walk barefoot through the kitchen.
What can you infer just happened?
Something glass had broken.
The Straits of Mackinac are a 5-mile-wide, 30-mile-long waterway connecting Lake Michigan and Lake Huron. They separate the Upper and Lower Peninsulas and are spanned by a 5 mile long suspension bridge.
Description
Don't count your chickens until they hatch.
Idiom
The main events in a story.
Rising action
Restating a passage in your own words while keeping the original meaning.
Paraphrasing
The woman in the car parked in the store parking lot kept looking at her watch, then at the entrance
What is the woman doing?
Waiting for the store to open.
Key events leading up to the American Revolution include the Stamp Act of 1765, the Boston Massacre in 1770, and the Boston Tea Party in 1773.
Sequence of events/chronological order
The wind whispered softly through the trees.
Personification
When all the loose ends are tied up.
Resolution
The strategy to analyze a poem.
PFATS *double jeopardy: say what each letter stands for to get double the $
The family heard the sounds of fizzing, popping, and the "oooohs" and "aaaaahs" of the happy crowd. The heat of the summer night hovered around them.
What inference can you make?
They are watching fireworks.
Wind energy is a clean, renewable power source with low operating costs, but it faces challenges regarding noise, visual pollution, and risks to wildlife.
Advantage/disadvantage
He was a turtle hiding inside a shell.
Metaphor
What happens right after the climax.
Falling action
When we can see the perspective of all the characters.
Omniscient point of view