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Reading Skills
Fiction
Poetry
Informational Text
Figurative Language
100
The "voice" of a work; also known as the narrator's perspective.

First person, second person, and third person are types of this.

What is point of view?
100
the character or force causing problems for a main character
What is antagonist?
100
grouped lines in a poem
What is a stanza?
100
a statement that cannot be proven true or false; somebody's personal feeling, thought, or belief
What is opinion?
100
Identify the type of figurative language: "John's answer to the problem was just a Band-Aid, not a solution."
What is a metaphor?
200
the reason why the author writes something (2 words)
author's purpose
200
lesson, message, moral, _________
What is theme?
200
the pattern of rhyming lines written on the side of each stanza
rhyme scheme
200
a statement that can be proven true or false when research is done (two words)
What is a factual claim?
200
Identify the type of figurative language: When Micaela gets out on the track, she is a cheetah.
What is a metaphor?
300
the narrator is an observer, but can also zoom in on the thoughts and emotions of any character
What is third person omniscient?
300
written conversation between two or more characters and identified by quotation marks
What is dialogue?
300
words used in an imaginative way to express ideas that are not literally true (similes, metaphors, personification, hyperbole, etc.)
What is figurative language?
300
a statement that is generally accepted to be true by MOST people (two words)
What is a commonplace assertion?
300
Identify the figurative language: "The thunder clapped angrily in the distance."
What is personification?
400
how the author creates the passage and puts it together (ex. cause and effect, sequencing, problem-solution, etc.)
What is organization or text structure?
400
how to create a summary for a fictional text (three letters)
What is BME (beginning, middle, and end)?
400
the feeling or atmosphere created in the reader by a literary work or passage

For example, the ________ in "The Tell-Tale Heart" is creepy and scary when the narrator is killing the old man.

What is mood?
400
Name at least two things you can expect to find in an informational text
facts, dates, names, places, information, text structures, text features, etc.
400
Identify the figurative language: "Her hair was as soft as a spider web."
What is a simile?
500
how the writer or speaker feels toward a subject of a poem, story, or other literary work
What is tone?
500
Draw a plot diagram and label the five sections
exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, resolution
500
Name two types of poetry; think of the poetry bookmark you have in your composition book
What is epic (a poem with a story line and follows the adventures of a hero; usually long and have rhythm and repetition), narrative (a poem that tells a story but is much shorter than an epic poem; usually follows the plot diagram), lyrical (a poem that expresses thoughts and emotions and contains rhyme and rhythm/meter), and free verse (a poem that has no rhyme or regular rhythm).
500
What is the difference between an autobiography and a biography?
What is an autobiography is a true story of a person's life written or told by that person and a biography is a true story of a person's life written or told by someone else?
500
Identify the poetic element: "Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers."
What is alliteration?