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Reading Skills
Fiction
Poetry
Expository Text
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100
The "voice" of a work; the narrator's perspective
What is point of view?
100
This is the character or force that is in conflict with a main character.
What is antagonist?
100
This is grouped lines in a poem.
What is a stanza?
100
This is 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
What is the rhyme scheme of the following poem? Roses are red Violets are blue I need the answers to the test Can I get it from you?
What is A, B, C, B.
200
This is 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: "Michaela 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
A type of point of view in which the narrator is an observer, but can also zoom in on the thoughts and emotions of any character.
What is third person omniscient?
300
This is the written conversation between two or more characters and identified by quotation marks.
What is dialogue?
300
This is using words in an imaginative way to express ideas that are not literally true.
What is figurative language?
300
This is 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
This is how the author creates the passage and puts it together (ex. cause and effect, sequencing, problem-solution, etc.)
What is author's organization?
400
This is a summary of a story that includes information from each part of the story.
What is BME (beginning, middle, and end)?
400
This is the feeling or atmosphere created in the reader by a literary work or passage.
What is mood?
400
Name at least two things you need to consider and notice when reading an expository text.
What are text features, including boldfaced words, italicized words, key words, vocabulary definitions, subtitles, charts, diagrams, pictures, and photographs.
400
Identify the figurative language: "Her hair was as soft as a spider web."
What is a simile?
500
This is 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
Draw a plot diagram, label the five sections, and identify the parts of Cinderella on your diagram.
What is exposition (Cinderella is unhappily living with her stepmother and stepsisters and made to do all the work.), rising action (All the girls are invited to a ball by the Prince, and Cinderella is able to attend with the help of her fairy godmother only until midnight.), climax (Cinderella loses one shoe.), falling action (The prince's men try the show on everyone in the kingdom, and it fits Cinderella.), and resolution (Cinderella and the prince live happily ever after.)
500
Name the four most common types of poetry and give one characteristic of each.
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 figurative language: "Alice's aunt ate apples and acorns around August."
What is alliteration?