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Figurative Language
Text Structures
Test Strategies
Skills
Miscellaneous
100
When two objects or ideas that are not alike are compared using 'like' or 'as'
Simile
100

Differences between two or more things

Contrast

100
What type of question is being asked when it says: "What is this story mostly about?"
Central Idea questions
100
What is the setting of a story?
Where the story takes place
100
Name the figurative language used in the following: The woman was a delicate flower, wilting at the loss of her friend.
Metaphor
200
When two objects or ideas that are not alike are compared without using like or as
Metaphor
200

What is the picturing in words of something or someone through detailed observation of color, motion, sound, taste, smell, and touch; using adjectives

Description

200

What is an inference?

It is an educated guess based on background knowledge and evidence from the text.

200
What is the mood of a story?
Mood is the overall emotion that the reader feels from a story.
200

Explain what the following means:It is raining cats and dogs.

It is raining heavily.

300
A figure of speech in which human characteristics are given to an animal or an object
Personification
300

A situation that needs to be solved, and something that has an answer

Problem and Solution

300

What is a result that someone aims for and works hard to achieve?

A goal

300

What is the theme of a story or text?

The message, lesson, or moral of a story or text.

300

What is a statement that can be proven?

A fact

400
The use of a word to describe or imitate a natural sound or the sound made by an object or an action.
Onomatopoeia
400

The reason why something happens, and A change that is a result or consequence of an action or other cause.

Cause and Effect

400

What does comprehend mean?

To understand something.

400
What is it called when you take notes and underline important ideas when reading a text?
Annotation
400

What shows a person's underlying values or beliefs

Traits

500
An exaggeration that is so dramatic that no one would believe the statement is true.
Hyperbole
500

the order in which things happen or should happen

Sequence

500

What is the attitude that the author takes towards an audience, subject or character?

Tone

500

What does cite mean?

To quote from the text word for word

500

What retells the main idea of a text using fewer words than the original.

Summarize