Category 1: Literary Elements (R.1.1, R.1.2, R.1.3, R.1.4)
100: This part of the plot is the turning point of the story, where the tension is highest.
(What is the climax?)
100: This structure explains why something happened and what the result was.
(What is cause and effect?)
100: These are words that have the same or nearly the same meaning as another word.
(What are synonyms?)
100: These words (and, but, or) are used to connect words or phrases.
(What are conjunctions?)
100: This is an exaggerated statement not meant to be taken literally, like "I'm so hungry I could eat a horse."
(What is a hyperbole?)
200: This is the underlying message or big idea that the author wants the reader to take away.
(What is the theme?)
200: In an informational text, this is a short statement that covers the main points.
(What is a summary?)
200: This type of figurative language makes a comparison using the words "like" or "as."
(What is a simile?)
200: This is the name for a group of words that has both a subject and a verb.
(What is a clause/sentence?)
200: When an author writes to convince you of something, their purpose is to...
(What is persuade?)
300: When a narrator uses words like "I," "me," and "my" to tell their own story, they are using this perspective.
(What is first-person point of view?)
300: This text feature, often found at the bottom of a photo, explains what is happening in the picture.
(What is a caption?)
300: If you don't know a word, you can look at the sentences around it to find these.
(What are context clues?)
300: You use this punctuation mark to separate items in a list or to set off the name of someone you are speaking to.
(What is a comma?)
300: This is the term for a story that is passed down through generations and often explains how something in nature came to be.
(What is a myth or folktale?)
400: Explain how a character’s perspective might differ from the reader’s.
(Answers vary: The character may lack information the reader has, leading to dramatic irony.)
400: To find the "central idea" of a text, you should look for the most important point supported by these.
(What are key details?)
400: In the word "unbelievable," what is the prefix and what does it mean?
(What is "un-", meaning "not"?)
400: This type of sentence is made up of two independent clauses joined by a comma and a conjunction.
(What is a compound sentence?)
400: Comparing two different accounts of the same event is called...
(What is analyzing multiple accounts/perspectives?)