Reading 1
What is a main/central idea?
What a text is MOSTLY about.
Someone who offers opposition to the main character/ protagonist
Antagonist
Where a story takes place
Setting
A book written about someone famous to teach us about their life.
Biography
Of which country is Saint Patrick the patron saint?
Ireland
To look at the differences between two things.
Contrast
To quote specifically from the text
Cite
This is an example of what type of figurative language: "It's raining cats and dogs!" meaning it's raining really hard.
Idiom
This is a genre that has magical elements in the story and is fictional.
Fantasy
Which city dyes its river green each St. Patrick's Day?
Chicago
The central message or life lesson
Theme
The reason for the writing; to amuse, persuade, or inform a reader.
Author's Purpose
A type of figurative language where one thing is compared to another using LIKE or AS.
I am AS tall AS a tree.
Simile
What is a very short story meant to teach a moral or lesson to the reader that feature animals as characters?
Fable
What is sighted to signal the start of Ramadan?
The crescent moon
To guess or figure out from the evidence
Infer
You support your answers using proof from the text...
Evidence
Comparing one thing to another without using LIKE or AS...
He is a class clown.
Metaphor
Use of the same consonant at the beginning of each word:
Barry the bear bent to bounce the basketball.
Alliteration
According to Irish lore, what animal did St. Patrick drive out of Ireland?
Snakes
Based on figure of speech; authors/poets use words that mean something different then what they say (like similes, metaphors, idioms, etc).
Figurative Language
These are the parts of a text that support the main idea (the how, why, when, etc).
Details
When author's make a nonliving thing seem alive:
The flowers danced in the wind.
Personification
Using words that imitate a sound like "meow"...
onomatopoeia
How many people are said to be observe Ramadan?
A. 250 million
B. 1.8 billion
C. 50 million
D. 1.1 billion
1.8 billion