Picture It Vocabulary
Big Question Vocabulary
A Retrieved Reformation
Gentlemen of Rio en Medio
Fiction and Nonfiction
100
to persuade, to inform, to entertain, (P.I.E)
What is authors purpose
100
not likely; open to challenge
What is doubtful
100
believable reason why a suspect could not have been at the scene of a crime
What is alibi
100
children, grandchildren and continuing generations
What is descendants
100
perspective of a character in the story
What is first person point of view
200
the words and phrases around an unfamiliar word- to determine the meaning of and unfamiliar word
What is context clues
200
search; look for
What is investigate
200
strong distress
What is anguish
200
ownership
What is possession
200
-they deal only with real people, events, or ideas -narrated from the point of view of the author who is a real person, -science book, autobiography
What is nonfiction
300
we come to a conclusion based on a detail an author provides in the text
What is making inferences
300
open-minded, not influenced by personal feelings or prejudice
What is objective
300
grasped mentally; saw
What is perceived
300
unusual or old fashioned in a pleasing way
What is quaint
300
the highest or most intense part of a story
What is climax
400
restating a sentence of an idea in your own words; can lead to a better understanding of what we read
What is paraphrasing
400
to deny or go against a viewpoint
What is contradict
400
restore to working condition; restore the good name of
What is rehabilitiate
400
introductory; prepatory
What is preliminary
400
the sequence of events that takes you through the story
What is plot
500
to restate the main idea of a text
What is summarizing
500
tendency to see things from a slanted or prejudiced viewpoint
What is bias
500
without calling attention to oneself
What is unobtrusively
500
document which when signed transfers ownership of property
What is deed
500
the overall feeling that the work evokes in a reader
What is mood
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