Figurative Language
A comparison between two unlike things that uses the terms "like or as."
What is a simile?
Informational Text example
What is a menu, magazine, article, newspaper, brochure, pamphlet, etc?
A text structure that goes in time order.
What is chronological order?
FSA Reading Test Days
What are May 4th and May 5th?
A comparison between two unlike things that does not use the words "like or as."
What is a metaphor?
How a character feels or thinks.
What is point of view?
The author's argument/statement they believe to be true.
What is a claim?
An educated guess.
What is an inference?
The two types of texts you will read.
What are informational texts and literary pieces?
Not to be taken literally. Paints a picture in the reader's mind.
What is figurative language?
The most exciting/dramatic part of a story. Also known as "the turning point."
What is the climax?
The reason an author wrote a text or what they hope to accomplish with the text.
What is author's purpose?
Directly supports the author's central idea.
What are supporting details/evidence?
What I should do when reading the texts.
What is annotating/interacting with/marking up the text?
Giving human qualities to non-human things.
What is personification?
"Look before you leap."
What is an example of theme?
Hints before and after a word used to determine word meaning.
What are context clues?
Can be found in the title, the introduction, and throughout the text.
Where can the central idea be found?
The strategy of narrowing down the answer choices.
What is process of elimination?
"This test is going to kill me."
What is an example of a hyperbole?
The plot order of a story (5 parts).
What is the exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, resolution?
The central idea formula.
What is topic + point?
their vs. there
What is a word to represent ownership vs a word to represent a location?
All the FSA tests you will take in 10th grade.
What are FSA Writes, FSA Reading, and FSA Math?