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Words that tell actors what to say are called what? Example: Ms. Mando: [jumping up and down joyfully]: "Justin Timberlake just asked me to marry him!"
Lines
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This refers to the message, or moral, of a story.
What is the theme?
100
This is the big idea that the author wants you to understand after reading the text.
What is the main idea?
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If something is flexible, it can ______.
bend or be bent easily
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Bob was found stealing from the toy store, and his parents were penalized. The police ticket read, "illegally taking merchandise from a store." Bob's parents were going to make him do chores to pay the fine they received. The meaning of "penalized" is _______.
What is punished or fined?
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Dramas are organized into acts and scenes. Prose is organized into chapters and/or paragraphs. Poems are organized into _____.
What are stanzas?
200
The ____ refers to the major events in a story.
What is the plot?
200
This term means telling events in sequential order.
What is chronological order?
200
When a coach inspires his or her team before a game, how might they play?
They might play well, hard, put everything into it, etc.
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Many words and phrases that we use today come from Greek and Roman myths. Hypnos was the god of sleep, so "being hypnotized" means....
What is being in a sleep-like state?
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What is a climax?
The most exciting turning point in a story.
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A _______ is a short retelling of the most important parts of a story.
What is a summary?
300
Titles, subtitles, headings, captions, photographs, and side bars are all examples of ______.
What are text features?
300
Something that is burning slowly from the inside without flames is what?
Smoldering
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The Stranger in the story "The Stranger" is what?
A metaphor for the seasons
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This genre contains rhythm and meter.
What is poetry?
400
Myths, fables, fairy tales, and tall tales are all examples of ____.
What are folktales?
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Also called "reading between the lines," this refers to when readers combine their knowledge with what the text says explicitly.
What is making an inference?
400
If your friend scoffed about a team's chances of winning, how did your friend feel?
They did not believe the team would win.
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______ is a phrase with a different meaning than the literal meaning of each word in the phrase. For example, "that jacket costs an arm and a leg."
What is an idiom?
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Another word used for the "problem" of the drama or story.
What is conflict?
500
Identify the theme of the following passage in ONE WORD ONLY: Ryan's mother was trying to learn to cook. She was not very good at it, though. One night she burned the casserole. Another night she scalded the soup. Ryan and his father did their best to eat what she put in front of them, though. “She will get better,” Ryan’s father told Ryan. “We have to encourage her so that she will not give up.” One afternoon Ryan’s mother put too much baking soda in the cookies and they were so bitter that Ryan had to spit a bite of cookie out into his napkin when his mother wasn’t looking. “I am sorry that I am not a good cook,” his mother told him. “That is okay,” Ryan said. “The important thing is that you keep working on it, and then you will get better.”
What is perseverance?
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The way an author organizes his/her text is called the _____.
What is text structure?
500
Use peculiar in a sentence.
The sentence must use peculiar as an adjective.
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Understanding the text structure of a passage helps the reader to do what?
Understand the author's purpose and what the passage means.