Vocabulary
Reading Skills
Reading Skills 2
Story Elements
Vocabulary & Terms
100

____ is a conversation between two or more people.

A) emphasize
B) dialogue
C) experience
D) dictionary entry



Correct Answer: B) dialogue

100

What text feature explains a photograph?

A) glossary
B) table of contents
C) caption
D) diagram


Correct Answer: C) caption

100

What is the time and place that a story occurs?

A) setting

B) procedures

C) problem

D) order and sequence

The correct answer is: A) setting

100

The overall message or lesson of a story is called:

A) theme

B) main idea

C) supporting details

D) connections

The correct answer is: A) theme

100

Dialogue means:

A) A conversation between two people

B) A description of a setting

C) A character trait

D) A narrator’s thoughts

The correct answer is: A) A conversation between two people

200

Information explaining the meaning of a word can be found in a ____.

A) difference
B) experience
C) dictionary entry
D) exaggeration



Correct Answer: C) dictionary entry

200

What structure shows how two things are alike and different?

A) chronological
B) compare and contrast
C) cause and effect
D) problem and solution


Correct Answer: B) compare and contrast

200

What does it mean to visualize when you read?

A) to state the cause and effect

B) to create a picture in your mind as you read

C) to make predictions as you read

D) to summarize what you read in your own words

The correct answer is: B) to create a picture in your mind as you read

200

The reason an author writes something is called the:

A) author's imagination

B) author's background

C) author's purpose

D) author's predictions

The correct answer is: C) author's purpose

200

A literary work based on imagination and not necessarily on fact is called:

A) similarity

B) fiction

C) genre

D) theme

The correct answer is: B) fiction

300

Personal knowledge gained from observation is known as ____.

A) experience
B) dialogue
C) difference
D) example


Correct Answer: A) experience

300

The ____ is all the major events of the story.

A) event

B) setting

C) sequence

D) plot

Correct Answer is: D) plot

300

Which sentence best supports the idea that potato chips are well‑liked today?

A) Potato chips are a crunchy and salty snack

B) Potato chips have come a long way from their beginnings as fried potatoes

C) Potato chips began as an accidental success

D) Grocery stores sometimes have a hard time keeping bags of potato chips on their shelves before they sell out

The correct answer is: D) Grocery stores sometimes have a hard time keeping bags of potato chips on their shelves before they sell out

300

The events that make up a story are called the:

A) result

B) prefix

C) plot

D) fact


The correct answer is: C) plot

300

A word part that can be added to the beginning of a word to make a new word is called a:

A) sequence

B) summary

C) prefix

D) main idea

The correct answer is: C) prefix

400

A part of something taken to show the character of the whole.

A) experience
B) example
C) dialogue
D) difference


Correct Answer: B) example

400

Humpty Dumpty's ____ is he fell off the wall.

A) theme

B) conclusion

C) solution

D) problem

Correct Answer is: D) problem

400

What do you include in a summary of a nonfiction passage?

A) Everything

B) All the facts

C) The title

D) What is important

The correct answer is: D) What is important

400

The problem in the story is called the:

A) conflict

B) suggests

C) theme

D) resolution

The correct answer is: A) conflict

400

What type of figurative language is 'Teddy tiger tried tying tepees together'?

A) Alliteration

B) Idiom

C) Hyperbole

D) Onomatopoeia

The correct answer is: A) Alliteration

500

To stress or show something is important.

A) end
B) exaggeration
C) example
D) emphasize


Correct Answer: D) emphasize

500

The ____ to little Red Riding Hood's problem is the wolf dies.

A) conclusion

B) solution

C) problem

D) sequence

Correct Answer is: B) solution

500

Which is an example of sensory language?

A) with great big trusting eyes

B) those things upon my back

C) the clicking of her high heels on the hallway tile

D) where hills are wide

The correct answer is: C) the clicking of her high heels on the hallway tile

500

Which words rhyme in the stanza of the poem?

A) The last words in the first and fourth lines

B) The last words in the first and third lines

C) The last words in every line

D) The last words in the second and fourth lines

The correct answer is: D) The last words in the second and fourth lines

500

Which element of free verse poetry is correct?

A) It presents a lesson that can be learned

B) It uses figurative language to create imagery

C) It does not follow a rhyming pattern

D) Its lines are not similar in length

The correct answer is: C) It does not follow a rhyming pattern