Reading comprehension
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100

What is the setting?

The location and time of a story

100

What is it called when you see ABBA or AABB or ABAB in poetry?

Rhyme Scheme

100

"He was as quiet as a mouse" is an example of a ___.

A simile

100

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.

100

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

200

What is the main idea?

What the text is mostly about. 

200

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.

200

"The bright orange walls screamed at her as she walked into the room." is an example of what type of figurative language? 

Personification

200

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.

200

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

300

The vocabulary words listed in the back of the book is called?

Glossary

300

What text structure would I use when teaching someone how to bake a cake?

Cause/Effect

Chronological/Sequential

Problem/Solution

Compare/Contrast

Sequence/Chronological

300

What is the ending of a story called? Where the problem is solved?

resolution

300

What figurative language is expressed in the following sentence:


The alarm buzzed through the hallways to signal the end of the day.

Onomatopoeia

300

What is the PLOT of a story/novel?

The plan of the story.  The events that are happening in the story.

400

What is a character in a story/novel?

The person or animal in a story.  Usually the conflict surrounds them in the story.   

400

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"

400

What does it mean to compare and contrast? 

To describe how things are alike and how they are different

400

What are the paragraphs in a poem called? 

Stanzas 

400

What is a suffix?

Part of a word added to the end of a root word to change the meaning of the root word. 
500

What figurative language is this below?

Lucy Lu loves lasagna and linguini. 

Alliteration

500

A picture with labels is called a _____.

A picture with labels is called a diagram.

500

Which figurative language is the following sentence?

"She is a tornado when she gets angry!"

Metaphor

500

What is an adjective? Provide an example!

A word that describes a noun.

500

What is a prefix?

Part of a word added to the beginning of a root word that changes the meaning of the root word.