RELIGION
This season of the Church year prepares us for Jesus' coming into the world, as well as prepares us for the Second Coming of Christ at the end of time.
A type, or genre, of writing that describes imaginary characters and events.
Fiction
A type of literature that uses the sounds, rhythms, and meanings of words to describe the world in striking and imaginative ways.
Poetry
Words and details surrounding an unfamiliar word that helped to unlock the meaning of that word.
Context clues
This part of speech tells what action someone or something is performing.
Verb
God's saving plan and actions for his People.
salvation
Reports, essays, and articles are three forms of this genre of writing.
Nonfiction
Alliteration, repetition, and onomatopoeia are three types of _________________.
Sound devices
The narrator, telling the story, is a character who participates in the story and uses the first-person pronoun I.
First-person point of view
Ex. Kevin was a navy seal.
The type of verb in this sentence.
Linking
God reveals Himself through Sacred Scripture and _________ _______________.
Sacred Tradition
This is the central message in a literary work.
Theme
Language that is not meant to be used literally.
Figurative language
This means making an intelligent judgment about what will happen next in a story based on details in the text.
Predicting
Compound
The ______________ presents the story of God's presence and his saving plan for his People.
Bible
Main Idea
Descriptions that appeal to the five senses, which poets use to create vivid word pictures.
Imagery
Detail 1: Jake laughs a lot while watching the movie.
Detail 2: Jake says he wants to see it again.
Therefore, I can logically reason that Jake likes the movie.
This reading skill allows readers to use details from the story in order to develop logical ideas about unstated information.
Making inferences
This part of speech modifies a verb, an adjective, or another _____________.
Adverb
The part of the Bible that includes laws, history, and stories of God's People.
The Old Testament
The three most common purposes for writing are to entertain, to inform, or to persuade.
Author's purpose
This type of figurative language gives human qualities to a nonhuman subject.
Personification
This is something that can be proved.
Fact
The noun or pronoun following a preposition.
Ex. behind the wall
Object of the preposition.