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Vocabulary
Reading Comprehension
Literary Elements
Literary Devices
Hodge-Podge
100
A word of group of words around an unknown word that helps a reader understand its meaning.
What are context clues?
100
City Groupings: Cities that are on the coast Cities that are inland This is an example of
What is classifying?
100
This is a type of writing.
What is genre?
100
This compares two things by using the word like or as. (Bert has a mind like a steel trap.)
What is a simile?
100
A statement that might be true for one person, but not another. It cannot be proven.
What is an opinion?
200
A phrase that is not meant to be taken at face value (example: It's raining cats and dogs).
What is an idiom?
200
Putting items or events in a certain order, such as alphabetical, or putting events in time oreder.
What is sequencing?
200
The two major genres are
What are fiction and nonfiction?
200
An exaggeration used for effect is a (That car isn't worth a penny)
What is hyperbole?
200
This is a listing in the front of a book of chapters and page numbers where the chapter begins.
What is a table of contents?
300
What a passage is mostly about.
What is main idea?
300
A reader has to do this when the narrator or author does not tell the reader exactly what is happening in a story.
What is inferencing?
300
Fables, tall tales, and folktales are examples of this genre.
What is fiction?
300
When nonhuman things are given human traits and behaviors. (That sleepy town has little action.)
What is personification?
300
A sentence or label that appears near a graphic or picture to explain what it means.
What is a caption?
400
Information that backs up and builds on the main idea.
What are details?
400
Tom throws a baseball at the house and the window gets broken. This is an example of
What is cause and effect?
400
Biographies, personal essays, and textbooks are examples of this genre.
What is nonfiction?
400
This is the repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words. (Neil knew not to play with knives.)
What is alliteration?
400
A ____________ is an alphabetical listing in the back of a book that lists major concepts and the page where each appears.
What is an index?
500
To group items together based on what they have in common.
What is to classify?
500
When you are writing this, you need to give the reader enough information to know what the passage is about.
What is a summary?
500
This is a series of events that occur in a story. There are three main parts to this--the beginning, middle, and the end.
What is plot?
500
What characters say is called
What is dialogue?
500
A short title in bold type that tells the reader what the section is about.
What is a heading?