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100

The time and place where a story or text happens. 

For example: Afterschool, 1925, under the pale moonlight, January 12, 1765.

What is the setting?

100

When the author gathered their information from multiple sources. 

What is a secondary source?

100

Comparing two things using like and as. 

What is a simile?

100

When added to "visible", what word part means "not visible?" 

What is in? 

100
When the poet uses rhyming words, line lengths, punctuation, and stanza lengths to set the pace at which you read a poem. 

What is rhythm? 

200
Is another word for problem, challenge, struggle, or tension in a story? 

What is conflict? 

200
The author supplies the reason and evidence to support their...

What is claim?

200
The city was a jungle of concrete and steel. What type of figurative language? 

What is a metaphor? 

200

What suffix, when added to "play," means a "person who plays?" 

What is er?

200

When you are asked to draw a conclusion based on evidence in the text, using your background knowledge? 

What is an inference?

300

A lesson about life that applies to all people? 

What is a theme?

300

Includes the central idea and key details. 

What is a summary? 

300

It started on a marvelous, meaningful morning in May. What type of figurative language?

What is alliteration?

300

means life... 

For example, the study of living things or a story about someone's life. 


What is bio?

300

The setting, plot, and theme written in your own words in less than 5 sentences is the? 

SWBST

What is a summary? 

400

The part of a story where we usually discover the author's theme? 

What is the resolution? 

400

When an author is discussing the similarities and differences of two or more things in a passage? 

What is a compare and contrast text structure? 
400

Giving a nonliving thing human qualities. 

What is personification? 

400

If port means to carry, and able means the ability to be. What word means able to be carried?  

What is portable? 

400

When the narrator is part of the story, and can only share their thoughts and feelings. 

What is the first point of view? 

500

The characters, settings, and events in a literary text. 

What is the plot?

500

The author's thoughts and feelings on the topic.

What is the author's perspective? 

500

The tree danced to the music of the wind. What type of figurative language? 

What is personification? 

500

If auto means self, and bio means life, and graph means to write. What does the word autobiography mean? 

What is a story someone writes about their life? 
500

A document, journal entry, drawing, interview, etc., with someone who witnessed or experienced an event. 

What is a primary source?