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Comprehension
Analysis-Voice
Analysis-Structr.
Analysis-WordCh
Critical Thinking
100
subject or topic
What is theme?
100
the giving of human qualities to an animal, object, or idea
What is personification?
100
place and time
What is setting?
100
using words to form pictures in the readers mind
What is imagery?
100
first person, third person and omniscient are all examples of this
What is point-of-view?
200
the main story of a literary work
What is plot?
200
an overstatement
What is exaggeration?
200
categories of artistic composition such as; sci-fi, mystery, fantasy, historical fiction
What is genres?
200
an expression that cannot be understood from the meaning of its separate words
What is idiom?
200
a writers prevailing attitude or emotion toward his or her subject
What is tone/mood?
300
the most important or central thought of a paragraph or larger selection of text
What is main idea?
300
the use of words to convey a meaning that is the opposite of its leteral meaning
What is irony?
300
one of the persons of a drama or novel
What is character?
300
comparing two unlike things using words like, like or as
What is simile?
300
from whose "eyes" the story is written from; objective or subjective
What is perspective?
400
a reason for writing the story like to entertain, inform, compare and contrast, explain, persuade, how-to
What is purpose?
400
a harsh biter remark
What is sarcasm?
400
internal or external struggle in a story and how the problem is resolved
What is conflict/resolution?
400
a similarity between like features of two things on which a comparison may be based
What is analogy?
400
a lesson that a story teaches
What is moral?
500
reading between the lines or making a logical conclusion based on information from the text and common sense
What is inference/prediction?
500
extravagant exaggeration used to emphasize a point
What is hyperbole?
500
an event that occurs that brings about a second event
What is cause and effect?
500
when a word or phrase for one kind of object or idea is used in place of another
What is metaphor?
500
to give a hint beforehand of an event that will happen later
What is foreshadowing?