External Text Structure
Strategies
Fiction
Word Analysis
Figurative Language
100
Italics
What is slanted, compact typing of a word to emphasize its meaning?
100
Conclude
What is to prove a statement to be true using a certain set of information?
100
Plot
What is the series of events in a story from its beginning to its end?
100
Prefix
What is a set of letters attached to the beginning of a word in order to change its meaning?
100
Simile
What is the comparing of two unlike things using "like" or "as"?
200
Headings
What is the title, subtitle, or topic that stands out at the top of or beginning of the text?
200
Inference
What is a decision based on your own knowledge and the information supplied by an author?
200
Setting
What is the place or period in which the action of a novel, play, film, etc., takes place?
200
Suffix
What is set of letters attached to the end of a word in order to change its meaning?
200
Alliteration
What is the repeating of the same or similar sounds at the beginning of words?
300
Subheading
What is the heading or subtitle of a subdivision of a selected text?
300
Main idea
What is the subject of a story or article?
300
Character trait
What is the set of clues given by an author that helps us to better understand a character's personality?
300
Root
What is the base of a word?
300
Personification
What is the type of figurative language where human qualities are given to something that isn't human?
400
Graphic organizer
What is a visual and graphic display that shows the relationships between facts, terms, and or ideas?
400
Summary
What is a brief statement that presents the main points of a story or article?
400
Rising action
What is the part of the plot where the main character is confronted with conflict?
400
Analogy
What is the comparison of two pairs of words that each share the same relationship?
400
Hyperbole
What is a type of figurative language that uses exaggeration for emphasis?
500
Venn diagram
What is a diagram that uses circles to represent sets and their relationships?
500
Predict
What is to declare or tell in advance, to prophesy, or to foretell?
500
Conflict
What is the struggle between characters or forces in a story?
500
Connotation
What is the shade of meaning in synonyms?
500
Metaphor
What is a type of figurative language that compares two unlike things without using "like" or "as"?
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