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Reading
Poetic Devices
Literary Devices
Vocabulary
Skills
100
When you read above and below a word
What are context clues?
100
I am the sun smiling down on the beach
What is personification?
100
I teach lessons. People call me a ________ or a _________.
What is the moral or theme?
100
The three of us make up the meaning of the word autobiography.
What are, self, life, & written?
200
I am a category of music or literature
What is genre?
200
I am a group of lines in a poem
What is a stanza?
200
The story happens here. What three elements should you describe about it?
(Setting) What are time, place, description?
200
This means that you understand the meaning of what you have read.
What is interpret?
200
This is when you eliminate any unwanted answer choices
What is process of elimination?
300
I am what the story is mostly about
What is main idea?
300
Big Bob bought a bunch of blue balloons for Betsy.
What is alliteration?
300
I'm going to give you a little hint about what's to come
What is foreshadowing?
300
What two meanings are hidden in the word omniscient?
What are "omni" - (all) and "sci" (to know)?
300
When you let you eyes slide over the passing it is called
What is scanning or skimming?
400
I am in the story and provide proof when you need it
What is textual evidence?
400
When my lines end with the same sound, they get the same letter
What is rhyme scheme?
400
The story will tell you a little, but you have to guess the rest.
What is an inference?
400
When what you are reading is true it is called
What is non-fiction?
400
When answering extended response questions you must be sure to
What is restate the question?
500
I'm there to make the story more interesting
What are supporting details?
500
My puppy is an eating machine
What is a metaphor?
500
Tell me about the story...but not too much.
What is summarize?
500
I am a graph, a diagram, a map, a table, a picture, or a chart
What is a textual feature?
500
Tell what's the same and what's different
What is compare/contrast?