Genres
This genre has stage directions and dialogue.
What is Drama (play)?
Hints the author gives you to help you define a difficult or unusual word.
What is Context Clues?
Where and when the story takes place.
What is Setting?
This strategy is used for nonfiction summary questions.
What is BME?
3rd-Person Limited: the person telling the story is outside the story. They know the thoughts of only one character.
What is TRUE? (Limited= all thoughts of ONE character, using they/them or she/he pronouns)
This genre follows a plot diagram and has characters and dialogue.
What is Fiction (short story)?
To reach a conclusion based on text evidence and prior knowledge.
What is Inference (drawing conclusions)?
Words that have the same meaning.
What is Synonym?
This strategy is used for vocabulary questions when you do NOT have a dictionary.
What is Context Clues or Root Words?
Paraphrase: Summarizing a text using the author's words
What is FALSE? (paraphrase= putting a part of or all of a text you read into your own words)
This genre includes the author's emotion, figurative language, and some literary devices.
What is Poetry?
Why the author wrote the selection.
What is Author's Purpose?
The introduction of the characters, setting, and basic situation in a plot diagram.
What is Exposition?
This strategy is helpful for you to comprehend or understand the entire text without reading every word.
What is the First Sentence of Each Paragraph strategy? (I will accept anything that is close to this)
Is the following an OPINION?
"treat others the way you want to be treated"
What is TRUE?
This genre has various text structures and text features.
What is Informational Text or Nonfiction?
The organizational pattern of a text.
What is Text Structure?
The person telling the story is outside the story, but they know what most (or all) of the characters are doing, thinking, or feeling.
What is 3rd-person Omniscient?
This strategy is for when you are using the dictionary and no results are coming up.
(Ex. You are looking up the word "Beautifully")
What is Take Off the Suffix (ending of a word) strategy?
The three types of irony are: dramatic, situational, and mental.
What is FALSE? (It is not mental, it is VERBAL).
This genre includes literary elements, real-life material, and personal anecdotes.
What is Literary Nonfiction?
A language that goes beyond the literal meaning or expected use of the words involved.
What is Figurative Language?
A metaphor that is used throughout a stanza or an entire poem.
What is Extended Metaphor?
What is Keyword Strategy?
Is the following an example of Commonplace Assertion?
"The key to a successful career is spending more time at work than others do."
What is TRUE? (commonplace assertion= statement that many people assume to be true, however, it is still an opinion even though many people agree with it.)