Reading Comprehension
Identifying the main idea means finding...
What is the central message or point of a text?
The time and place of a story
What is setting?
A comparison using “like” or “as”
What is a simile?
Using surrounding words to figure out a word’s meaning is called
What are context clues?
A sentence fragment is missing
What is a complete thought?
Evidence from the text that supports an answer is called
What is textual evidence?
A struggle between opposing forces in a story
What is conflict?
Giving human qualities to nonhuman things
What is personification?
A word that means the same as another word
What is a synonym?
The part of a sentence that tells what the subject does
What is the predicate?
The author’s attitude toward a topic is known as
What is tone?
A character who changes throughout the story
What is a dynamic character?
An exaggeration for emphasis
What is hyperbole?
A word that means the opposite of another word
What is an antonym?
Words like however, therefore, and for example are called
What are transition words?
When a reader makes a conclusion based on evidence and reasoning, it is called
What is an inference?
The turning point or most intense moment in a plot
What is climax?
A comparison that does NOT use “like” or “as”
What is a metaphor?
The feeling a word suggests beyond its definition
What is connotation?
The type of essay that explains a topic with evidence
What is an expository essay?
The purpose of a text written to convince the reader is
What is to persuade?
A character who opposes the main character
Who is the antagonist?
A word that imitates a sound
What is onomatopoeia?
The dictionary definition of a word
What is denotation?
A mistake where two complete sentences are joined incorrectly
What is a run-on sentence?