The words and phrases around an unknown word that provide clues to the word's meaning are known as this.
What are context clues?
100
To restate (in your own words) ideas of a previous speaker or author.
What is to summarize?
100
F) The author does this to show the reader events that occurred earlier than the time of the main story.
What is flashback?
100
When the author gives subtle hints of things that will happen later in the story.
What is foreshadowing?
200
"Pizza is yummy" is an example of an ______________.
What is an opinion?
200
Words that have similar meanings are called ____________.
What are synonyms?
200
To look at or study something very carefully in order to understand it.
What is analyze?
200
C) This is the term we use for the problem in the story.
What is the conflict?
200
When the author uses one thing to represent something else.
What is symbolism?
300
An opinion tells what someone ______________.
What is feels/thinks/believes?
300
Words that have opposite meanings are called _______________.
What are antonyms?
300
It is good to provide this when you want to support or prove your answers.
What is evidence?
300
A) The person that wrote the passage is called the ______________.
Who is the author?
300
When characters are speaking to each other, it is called this.
What is dialogue?
400
If a statement contains numbers such as ages and dates, it is a ____________.
What is a fact?
400
The dictionary definition of a word is called _____________.
What is denotation?
400
To think about, or guess, what will happen next.
(*hint- test questions asking you to do this might say "probably" or "most likely")
What is predict?
400
T) The author's emotions or mood is know as __________.
What is tone?
400
This is the perspective from which the story is being told.
What is point of view? (first person, second person, third person limited, third person omniscient, third person objective)
500
When an author shares their opinion by taking a stand or arguing a point, they are making a ____________.
What is a claim
500
The suggested, or implied, meaning of a word is ___________________.
What is connotation
500
To reach a conclusion based on previous knowledge and new information.
What is infer?
500
This is what FCAT stands for.
What is the Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test?
500
This signals a difference between the appearance of things and reality. (such as sarcasm, unexpected outcomes, or the reader knowing something the characters don't know)
What is irony? (verbal, situational, and dramatic)