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Reading Skills
Fiction
Poetry
Expository Text
Figurative Language
100

The narrator's perspective, the narrator's voice

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 abbreviation for author's purpose and what each letter stands for
What is PIE, to persuade, inform, or entertain?
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

This literary device gives human characteristics to non-human things, such as objects, animals, or ideas.

Personification

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: "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

The struggle between opposing forces in a story is known as this.

Conflict

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

This method of presenting information in expository texts involves comparing and contrasting two or more things to highlight their similarities and differences.

Compare and Contrast

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.)

Text Structure

400

A story that is fiction is considerd to be what

What is made up/false?

400

the feeling or atmosphere created in the reader by a literary work or passage

What is mood?

400

This type of expository text provides a clear, detailed explanation of how something works or is done, often with step-by-step instructions.

Sequencing, Process, Chronological

400
Identify the figurative language: "Her hair was as soft as a spider web."
What is a simile?
500

The feeling of a writer's or speaker's toward a subject of a poem, story, or other literary work

What is mood?

500

What are the 5 parts of a plot diagram?

Exposition, Rise in Action, Climax, Fall in Action, Resolution


500

A group of lines in a poem is called a ___________

Stanza

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 figurative language: "Alice's aunt ate apples and acorns around August."
What is alliteration?