Reading Prose & Poetry
The message or lesson the author wants to convey
What is the theme of a story?
The most important point an author wants to make in a text
What is the central idea?
Hints of what may occur later in the story
What is foreshadowing?
Time is a thief
What is a metaphor?
Dictionary definition of a word
What is denotation?
When details like weather or time of day can create a gloomy, cheerful, tense, or peaceful mood.
What is the setting influencing the mood?
Used to organize informational texts and guide the reader to key ideas such as headings and captions
What are text features?
It helps the reader visualize scenes and experience emotions more vividly
What is imagery?
A fire station burns down
What is irony?
Using antonyms, synonyms, comparisons or contrasts to determine the meaning of a word or phrase
What are context clues?
The author's attitude coming through in a story or poem
What is tone?
The author wants the reader to agree with their viewpoint or take action
What is the author's purpose in a persuasive text?
Examples such as first-person uses “I”; third-person uses “he,” “she,” or “they.”
What is point of view?
He was a real Romeo with the girls
What is an allusion?
Emotional or implied meaning of a word
What is connotation?
When characters view situations differently based on their experiences or beliefs
What are character perspectives?
The text structure that helps the reader understand how one event leads to another
What is cause-and-effect?
Using something to represent something else
What is symbolism?
The silver sea shimmered under the starry sky
What is alliteration?
Parts of words that provide clues to meaning in words
What are Latin or Greek roots?
A question that does not require a response
What is a rhetorical question?
One uses factual information and the other uses bias
What is fact vs. opinion?
Words or phrases that are not meant to be taken literally
What is figurative language?
The stack of homework reached the stratosphere, threatening to topple over and crush me
What is a hyperbole?
Using the word "slender" to describe someone thin
What is an example of negative connotation?