Reading Literature
What must you do when explaining what a text says explicitly or drawing an inference?
Quote accurately from the text
What a nonfiction text is "mostly about."
Main Idea
"The wind whispered through the trees" is an example of what figurative language?
Personification
Which punctuation mark is used to show someone is speaking?
Quotation marks
This type of writing tells a story, whether real or imagined.
Narrative
To find this, you look for the "big idea" or lesson of a story, drama, or poem...
Theme
These are the specific pieces of information used to support a main idea.
Key Details
"He was as brave as a lion." This comparison using "like" or "as" is a...?
Simile
Words like and, but, or, and so are known as...?
Conjunctions
What do you call the sentence that states your main claim or opinion in an essay?
Opinion Statement or Thesis Statement
This term describes how a narrator’s or speaker’s perspective affects the way events are described.
Point of View
Name two types of text structures used to organize information.
Chronological, Cause/Effect, Description, Comparison, or Problem/Solution
These are small word parts added to the beginning or end of a base word to change its meaning.
Prefixes and Suffixes or Affixes (means both)
Change this sentence to past tense: "She walks to the park."
She walked to the park.
These words, like "consequently" or "specifically," help link ideas and paragraphs together.
Transitions
When you compare and contrast these three things in a story, you use specific details like how they interact.
Characters, settings, or events
What do you call words that are specific to a particular field of study, like "photosynthesis" in science?
Domain-specific vocabulary / Subject vocabulary
Use context clues: "The desert was arid, receiving less than two inches of rain a year." What does arid mean?
Dry
What is the "subject" of a sentence?
The person, place, or thing that is doing the action.
When writing a narrative, you use these details to help the reader "see, hear, and feel" the story.
Sensory details / senses
True or False: Visual and multimedia elements (like illustrations) can contribute to the tone or beauty of a text.
True
When analyzing two different texts on the same topic, you are looking for similarities and differences in their...?
Point of View or Focus
These are words that have the same spelling but different meanings, like "bat" (sports equipment) and "bat" (animal).
Homographs
These words express strong emotion and are often followed by an exclamation point, like "Ouch!" or "Wow!"
Interjections
True or False: It is important to summarize or paraphrase information from a source to avoid plagiarism.
True