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Literary Terms
The Bar Code Tattoo
Reading Strategies
Grammar
Mixed Bag
100
a comparison using the words like or as
What is a simile?
100
the protagonist in The Bar Code Tattoo
Who is Kayla?
100
using the words around an unknown word to try to figure out what it means
What is using context clues?
100
this is a part of speech that is a person, place, thing, event, or idea. They can be abstract or concrete
What is a noun?
100
"under the desk" is an example of this part of a sentence
What is a prepositional phrase?
200
Giving inanimate objects human like qualities
What is personification?
200
the age at which the tattoo is required
What is 17?
200
these are features of non fiction articles that the reader should look over before reading
What are text features?
200
this part of speech shows action or a state of being
What is a verb?
200
an imagined place or state of things in which everything is perfect.
What is Utopia?
300
an extreme exaggeration not intended to be taken literally
What is hyperbole?
300
the company responsible for creating and giving the tattoo
What is Global 1?
300
this is what the reader should do if they do not remember a detail from the story they are being asked about
What is go back into the text?
300
this part of speech modifies nouns (i.e. tells us more about the noun)
What is an adjective?
300
an imagined place or state in which everything is unpleasant or bad, typically a totalitarian or environmentally degraded one
What is a Dystopia?
400
helps the reader the see, hear, taste, feel, or smell what the writer is describing
What is imagery?
400
often called the root of all evil. In the Bar Code Tattoo it motivates the insurance companies to "kill" the elderly when they are in the hospital
What is money?
400
this is what you do when you read a sentence you do not get
What is read the sentence again?
400
this is a part of a sentence that tells us what the sentence is mainly about
What is the subject?
400
this is the electronic device that can keep you from focusing on your studies and learning
What is a cell phone?
500
A comparison not using like or as that is carried throughout several lines of a poem
What is extended metaphor?
500
these are the groups that are against the tattoos. There are several around the country (in the book)
What are resistance groups?
500
this is the number one activity that will increase your vocabulary and reading skills
What is reading?
500
a group of words with a subject and a predicate
What is a clause?
500
this is the test you need to finish through Reading Plus. It could be used for placement next year
What is Insight?