Reading 5th Grade
The location and time of a story
What is the setting?
This part of an essay tells what the topic will be.
What is the introduction?
To use strong exaggeration
What is hyperbole?
I love going to baseball games they are so much fun.
The incorrect sentence above is an example of this type of sentence.
What is a run-on sentence?
A comparison using like or as
What is a simile?
Give an example of a pronoun and a conjunction.
Pronouns: He, she, they, it, us, we
Conjunctions: and, or, but, neither, nor
This is a short version of the story that includes just the important details.
What is the summary?
"The bright orange walls screamed at her as she walked into the room." is an example of what type of figurative language?
What is personification?
This is the action part of the sentence.
What is the predicate/ verb?
Specific details or facts that support an idea or inference.
What is text evidence?
What do you call a part of the book with titles and pages of where to find them?
What is the difference between a common noun and a proper noun?
Proper noun is capitalized; proper noun is a specific name of a person place or thing
It's raining cats and dogs.
This is an example of what type of figurative language?
A word that describes a noun
What is an adjective?
When text is written with an outside view using the pronouns he, she, it, they, him, her, or them.
What is 3rd person point of view?
What the story is mainly about?
Central or Main idea
When the story is told from the perspective of the narrator, using words like "I" or "me"
What is first person?
To describe how things are alike and how they are different
What is compare and contrast?
A person place or thing.
What is a noun?
When the story is telling us everything in the order it happened...it is using?
What is sequence?
the main events of a play, novel, movie, or similar work, devised and presented by the writer as an interrelated sequence.
What is a plot?
This is the last part of a paper that wraps it up. It is best to end this with an impact statement.
Which figurative language is the following sentence?
She is a tornado when she gets angry!
Metaphor
When words sounds alike but have different meanings/spellings.
Homophone
Stories that explain natural events or religious beliefs and usually involve beings such as god and goddess.
What are myths?