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Reading Skills
Fiction
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Expository Text
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100
The "voice" of a work; the narrator's perspective
What is point of view?
100
the character or force in conflict with 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
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 feeling or atmosphere created in the reader by a literary work or passage.

What is mood?

200
the overall, worldly lesson that can be learned from the story; a repeated idea or lesson in a literary text and often deals with abstract questions, beliefs, or truths
What is theme?
200

I say, mama, I'm so sorry
I got ice burn where my heart at
On the road where I had it hard at
How I'm chosen? I'm so heartless, so, so heartless

NBA Young Boy

Identify the suffix on the of the word "heartless".

Bonus: What is the main message of this stanza?

What is -less?

Bonus: He means that he is lonely and lacks feelings because of the things he has been through in life.

200

A true story of a person's life written or told by that person

What is an autobiography?

200

Identify the type of figurative language: "Micaela and I are going to hang out and shoot the breeze before the movie since we arrived early to the theater."

What is an idiom?

300

Character’s Voice: This is the voice of the main character and how they view the world. 

The character’s voice is usually written in ____ or _____ person point of view.

What is first or third person point of view?

300

written conversation between two or more characters and identifiable by quotation marks

What is dialogue?

300
words used in an imaginative way to express ideas that are not literally true
What is figurative language?
300

_________ _________ typically follows one of five formats: cause and effect, compare and contrast, description, problem and solution and sequence.

What is expository text?

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 author's organization?
400
a summary or short text that describes the original text must include what abbreviated information from the story
What is BME (beginning, middle, and end)?
400

It's been a long time since you fell in love
You ain't coming out your shell, you really ain't been yourself
Tell me what must I do (do tell, my love)

'Cause luckily I'm good at reading

"Say So" Doja Cat

Name the literary device used in this stanza by the phrase "You ain't coming out of your shell".

What is an idiom?

400

These are visual aids in expository text such as: illustrations, photographs, charts, graphs, diagrams, and timelines also known as ____________.

What are graphics?

400
Identify the figurative language: "Her hair was as soft as a spider web."
What is a simile?
500
a reflection of a writer's or speaker's attitude toward a subject of a poem, story, or other literary work
What is tone?
500

Name the main type of conflict in the excerpt from Diary of Anne Frank.

What is  an external conflict: Character vs. Society?

500

Pretty hurts
We shine the light on whatever's worst
Perfection is a disease of a nation
Pretty hurts, pretty hurts

"Pretty Hurts"- Beyonce

Name a type of figurative language represented in this stanza.

What is personification? - Pretty Hurts

or

What is a metaphor?- Perfection is a disease of a nation.

500

"Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth, upon this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal."

Gettysburg Address, Pres. Abraham Lincoln

Identify the type of the language used when he said "a new nation conceived in Liberty".

Bonus: Explain the meaning of the language used when he said "a new nation conceived in Liberty".

What is personification?

It means this nation was created freely by people who choose to honor freedom for everyone.

(As long as the explanation is close to this meaning, it will be excepted.)

500

Identify the figurative language: "Alice's aunt ate apples and acorns around August."

What is alliteration?