Vocabulary
Literary Devices
Literary devices 2
Reading comp and text structure
Grammar, punctuation
100

Perfect happiness or extreme joy

Bliss

100

The ancient car groaned and sputtered as it climbed the steep hill." What type of figurative language is giving human characteristics to the car?

Personification 

100

While the topic of a story might be "friendship," this term refers to the author's deeper message or life lesson about friendship that the reader learns.

Theme

100

This point of view uses pronouns like I, me, we, and my to tell the story from the narrator's own perspective.

First person point of view

100

What punctuation mark is used to combine two closely related independent clauses without using a coordinating conjunction (like and or but)?


Semicolon 

200

to buy or obtain for oneself; to gain control of

Acquire 

200

Identify the literary device used here: "Her voice was music to his ears."

Metaphor 

200

A brief restatement of a text’s main points in your own words—without adding personal opinions or minor details—is called a what?

Summary

200

If an informational passage explains why something happened and what occurred as a result, it uses this text structure.

Cause and effect 

200

Identify the missing punctuation: "Although it was raining heavily __ we decided to go for a hike anyway."

Comma

300

To pretend to be affected by a feeling, state, or injury

Feign

300

"I’ve told you a million times to clean your desk!" What type of hyper-exaggeration is this?

Hyperbole

300

Mysterious setting descriptions, eerie sound effects, and suspenseful music help create this feeling or emotional atmosphere inside the reader.

Mood

300

An argument or opinion presented in an informational text that is supported by evidence and reasoning is called the author's what?

Authors claim

300

"Running quickly through the park, the dog chased the squirrel." What part of speech is the word quickly?

Adverb

400

Intensely irritated or frustrated 

exasperated 

400

When an author gives subtle clues or hints early in a story about events that will happen later, it is known as this.

Foreshadowing 

400

An author's choice of words (diction) reveals their personal perspective or attitude toward the subject matter. This attitude is known as the...

Tone

400

A narrator who knows the thoughts, feelings, and actions of all characters in a story is using this specific point of view.

Third person point of view

400

Fix the error in this sentence: "Each of the students need to turn in their paper."

Need to Needs

500
Of little value or importance; minor or insignificant 

Trivial

500

In a movie, when the audience knows that the monster is hiding in the closet but the character walking toward it has no idea, this type of irony is created.

Dramatic irony

500

when the actual outcome of an event is the exact opposite of what was reasonably expected

Situational Irony 

500

A written account of a real person's life story written by that exact same person is called an...

Autobiography 

500

tell the reader precisely when someone else is speaking

Quotation marks