Reading Elements
The location and time of a story
What is the setting?
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 ___.
What is simile?
What does it mean to compare and contrast?
To describe how things are alike and how they are different
The word connect uses this prefix to show “to join together.”
In the word correct, this prefix means working together.
The word community includes a prefix meaning “together.”
What are the prefixes?
What are con-, cor-, and com-
The lesson, moral, or message an author is trying to teach in a story.
What is theme.
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?
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?
Persuade/Persuasion
Using context clues, what does the word feeble mean in the sentence below.
Even though she is feeble, the old lady still walks a mile every day.
without strength or weak
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
Boom, crack, buzz
What is an onomatopoeia?
This text structure explains why something happens and what happens as a result.
What is cause and effect?
A microscope allows scientists to see small things
A microphone enhances quiet sounds
A microchip is a tiny piece of technology in a computer
What does the stem "micro" mean?
Small
The big idea of a passage: you can find it by looking at repeated words, subheadings, title, pictures, captions
Main idea
When the story is told from the perspective of the narrator, using words like "I" or "me"
What is first person?
What figurative language is expressed in the following sentence:
I have told you a million times!
Hyperbole
A book about a person written by someone else.
biography
This is the most exciting or important turning point in the story.
What is the Climax
A picture with labels is called what in a nonfiction book?
What is a diagram.
Which figurative language is the following sentence?
"She is a tornado when she gets angry!"
What is metaphor?
What is an adjective? Provide an example!
A word that describes a noun
This word has the prefixes mis- (wrong) and re- (again), the root interpret, and the suffix -ation.
What is the act of interpreting something the wrong way again. Misreinterpretation