Reading comprehension
What is the setting?
The location and time of a story
What is it called when you see ABBA or AABB or ABAB in poetry?
Rhyme Scheme
"He was as quiet as a mouse" is an example of a ___.
A simile
What is THEME, when asked about a story, or novel?
Theme: The moral or message learned in the story. The message the author is trying to teach you.
What type of author's purpose is it when an author tries to get you to believe the same way they do about a topic?
To entertain
To persuade
To explain
To inform
What is the main idea?
What the text is mostly about.
Why do we use quotation marks " " around words that we use when we are citing evidence directly from a text?
To show that these are not your words but words the author of the text wrote.
"The bright orange walls screamed at her as she walked into the room." is an example of what type of figurative language?
Personification
What is wrong with this sentence?
He sprinted to the store and buy some milk.
The verb tenses don't agree - walked is past tense and buy is present tense.
He walked to the store and bought some milk.
Using context clues, what does the word vivacious mean in the sentence below?
Even though the crowd didn't cheer, Lily remained vivacious.
cheerful, animated, high-spirited, upbeat
The vocabulary words listed in the back of the book is called?
Glossary
What text structure would I use when teaching someone how to bake a cake?
Cause/Effect
Chronological/Sequential
Problem/Solution
Compare/Contrast
Sequence/Chronological
What is the ending of a story called? Where the problem is solved?
resolution
What figurative language is expressed in the following sentence:
The alarm buzzed through the hallways to signal the end of the day.
Onomatopoeia
What is the PLOT of a story/novel?
The plan of the story. The events that are happening in the story.
What is a character in a story/novel?
The person or animal in a story. Usually the conflict surrounds them in the story.
What is the first-person point of view?
When the story is told from the perspective of the narrator, using words like "I" or "me"
What does it mean to compare and contrast?
To describe how things are alike and how they are different
What are the paragraphs in a poem called?
Stanzas
What is a suffix?
What figurative language is this below?
Lucy Lu loves lasagna and linguini.
Alliteration
A picture with labels is called a _____.
A picture with labels is called a diagram.
Which figurative language is the following sentence?
"She is a tornado when she gets angry!"
Metaphor
What is an adjective? Provide an example!
A word that describes a noun.
What is a prefix?
Part of a word added to the beginning of a root word that changes the meaning of the root word.