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 is the author's purpose when an author tries to get you to believe the same way they do about a topic?
to inform, to persuade, or to entertain
To persuade
What is the central 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
Which word in the sentence gives a hint about the author's perspective?
The children gasped at the frightening images in the painting.
frightening
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 one way an author shows the reader a character's perspective?
Dialogue
Actions
Feelings/Thoughts
Body Language/Facial Expressions
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"
Which text structure is used to show how things are alike and different?
Compare and Contrast
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 words would you annotate (highlight) in the following question?
Which detail supports the central idea that horses are strong animals?
horses are strong animals
What is a prefix?
Part of a word added to the beginning of a root word that changes the meaning of the root word.