Reading Skills
This is the term for the character or force who is in conflict with the protagonist.
What is antagonist?
This is the term for grouped lines in a poem.
What is a stanza?
This is a statement that cannot be proven true or false.
What is opinion?
Identify the type of figurative language: "John's answer to the problem was just a Band-Aid, not a solution."
What is a metaphor?
This is the the three purposes an author may have (The first letter of each spells PIE).
What is to persuade, inform, or entertain?
This is the overall, worldly lesson that can be learned from the story; a repeated idea or lesson in a literary text and often deals with abstract questions, beliefs, or truths.
What is theme?
This is the rhyme scheme of the following poem. (Use letters to demonstrate the scheme.)
Roses are red
Violets are blue
I need the answers to the test
Can I get it from you?
What is A, B, C, B?
This is a statement that can be proven true or false when research is done.
What is a fact?
Identify the type of figurative language: "Micaela and I are going to hang out and shoot the breeze before the movie since we arrived early to the theater."
What is an idiom?
This is the point-of-view when the narrator is an observer, but can also zoom in on the thoughts and emotions of any character.
What is third person omniscient?
This is the written conversation between two or more characters and identifiable by quotation marks (begins with a "d").
What is dialogue?
This is the descriptive term for all words that are used in an imaginative way to express ideas that are not literally true.
What is figurative language?
This is the process of understanding something not directly stated by the author using background knowledge and evidence from the text.
What is an inference?
Identify the figurative language: "The thunder clapped angrily in the distance."
What is personification?
This is how the author creates the passage and puts it together (examples are: cause and effect, sequencing, problem-solution, etc.).
What is author's structure/organization?
This is the term for a short text that describes the original text, but in abbreviated information.
What is a summary?
Name at least two text features you need to consider and notice when reading an expository text.
What are graphics/figures, sidebars, subtitles, and bolded/italicized words/phrases?
Identify the figurative language: "Her hair was as soft as a spider web."
What is a simile?
This is how the author feels toward a subject of a poem, story, or other literary work.
What is tone?
These are the five parts of a narrative text or a plot diagram.
What is exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, and resolution?
This is the type of poem that has no rhyme or regular rhythm.
What is free verse?
What is the difference between an autobiography and a biography?
What is an autobiography is a true story of a person's life written or told by that person and a biography is a true story of a person's life written or told by someone else?
Identify the figurative language: "Alice's aunt ate apples and acorns around August."
What is alliteration?