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reading skills
miscellaneous
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100
To examine things or people for their similarities?
What is it to compare?
100
the words under a picture in a text
What are captions?
100
The clothing that foreigners wore in China.
What is western clothing.
100
an object that does not have life as in comparison to a person or animal.
What is an inanimate object?
100
An expression that uses language in a nonliteral way
What is figure of speech?
200
To compare different things or arrange them in a way that highlights their differences
What is it to contrast?
200
the person or people who will read your writing
What is an audience?
200
Ailin is a wild deer.
What is a metaphor.
200
The systematic propagation of a doctrine or cause or of information reflecting the views and interests of those advocating such a doctrine or cause.
What is propaganda?
200
a type or class
What is genre?
300
to come to a reasoned judgement or an opinion based upon reasoning and evidence
What is it to draw a conclusion?
300
example: I'm a night owl.
What is a metaphor?
300
a sentence that does not deal with the topic sentence
What is irrelvant?
300
A figure of speech in which exaggeration is used for emphasis or effect
What is hyperbole?
300
to represent as greater than is actually the case; overstate
What is an exaggeration?
400
the different reasons why an author writes something
What is the author's purpose?
400
Example: Your hair is like a waterfall.
What is a simile?
400
The practice of representing things by means of symbols
What is symbolism?
400
words can be divided up into these
What are syllables?
400
correspondence of terminal sounds of words or of lines of verse
What is rhyme?
500
to derive by reasoning
What is it to infer? What is it to make an inference?
500
two words that sound the same
What are homonyms?
500
the attribution of a personal nature or character to inanimate objects
What is personification?
500
to emphasize, to speak stronger or louder
What is it to stress?
500
the pattern or flow of sound created by the arrangement of stressed and unstressed syllables
What is rhythm?