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Poetry
Purpose and POV
Figurative Language / Literary Devices
Central Idea and Details
A Little Bit of Everything
100
The repeating of a word, a phrase, or an idea for emphasis or for rhythmic effect
What is repetition
100
Name the 4 types of POV
What is 1st Person, 2nd Person, 3rd Person - limited and omniscient
100
Like a moth to the flame is an example of
What is simile
100
Use your prior knowledge on the subject and information gained in your reading to draw an conclusion.
What is inference
100

Plot is the events of story known as the meaning behind or revealed by story. It can sometimes be defined as the moral of a story. 

Theme

200
Giving animals or objects human qualities
What is personification
200
Fire ants are painful and destructive pests. The fire ant earned its name because of its venom. The insect uses a wasp-like stinger to inject the venom, which causes a painful burning sensation and leaves tiny, itching pustules. The ants will swarm over anyone or anything that disturbs their nests. In addition to causing pain, fire ants damage many crops by eating the plants and by protecting other insects that damage crops.Fire ants are attracted to soybeans, eggplant, corn, okra, strawberries, and potatoes. What is the main idea of this passage?
What is fire ants are dangerous
200
a kind of paradox that combines a pair of opposite terms into a single expression ex. hot ice - jumbo shrimp
What is oxymoron
200

Reason the author writes: persuade, inform, entertain

What is author's purpose

200
Device used to find specific information in informational text
What is index
300
The church was decorated with a million flowers. I ate so much at Thanksgiving, I must weigh more than a whale. We waited for centuries for the latest game to be released. Are all examples of what?
What is hyperbole
300
What the author wants you to get out of the reading is known as?
What is authors purpose
300
the use of clues that suggest events that have yet to occur
What is foreshadowing
300

Jenna loves to talk on the phone. She calls everyone she knows every day after school. Her bedroom has pink wallpaper. Jenna's father told her that the phone bill is getting too expensive. Jenna is now only allowed to call 2 friends each night. What detail from the passage does not support the central idea of the passage?

What is Jenna's wallpaper is pink.

300
Words that stand out in reading Used to identify important information in a passage
What is bold text
400
The repetition of vowel sounds without repeating consonants.
What is Assonance
400

The water that falls on you from nowhere when you lie is perfectly ordinary, but perfectly pure. True fact. I tested it myself when the water started falling a few weeks ago.

What is first person

400
The sequence of events or actions in a short story, novel, play or narrative poem
What is plot
400

Despite the hatred that most people feel toward cockroaches, they do help humans in several ways. For example, they are perfect experimental animals and are used for scientific research in the laboratory. Breeding them is easy, for they thrive under almost any conditions. In studies on nutrition and food, cockroaches are good subjects because they will eat any kind of food. They can be used to study heart disease, and cancer researchers work with roaches because they grow cancerous tumors like those that are found in humans. Which sentence in the passage is the main idea of this passage?

What is Despite the hatred that most people feel toward cockroaches, they do help humans in several ways.

400
nouns, verbs, adjectives. adverbs, proper nouns
What is parts of speech
500
Peter Piper Picked a Peck of Pickled Peppers Is an example of what?
What is alliteration
500

“Margaret, the eldest of the four, was sixteen, and very pretty, being plump and fair, with large eyes, plenty of soft brown hair, a sweet mouth, and white hands, of which she was rather vain. Fifteen-year-old Jo was very tall, thin, and brown, and reminded one of a colt … Elizabeth, or Beth, as everyone called her, was a rosy, smooth-haired, bright-eyed girl of thirteen, with a shy manner, a timid voice, and a peaceful expression, which was seldom disturbed … “

What is 3rd Person Omniscient

500
Exposition>Conflict>Rising Action>Climax>Falling Action>Resolution
What is plot sequencing
500

what is the term used for the most important or central thought of a paragraph or larger section of text,

Central Idea

500
Who is going to pass this test with amazing ease?
What is me!