Reading & Writing
How the reader feels about the text while reading.
What is mood?
The perspective from which a story is told.
What is Point of View?
A word that means the same as another word.
What is a synonym
A comparison of two unlike things using the words like or as.
What is a simile?
Sequence of events in a story.
What is the Plot?
A writer's attitude toward his or her subject matter.
What is Tone?
What is giving a summary?
Writing or speech that is not meant to be taken literally.
What is Figurative Language?
Giving human qualities to non-human things.
What is personification?
Where and when the story takes place.
What is the setting?
What is brainstorming?
Using what you know with what you read to come to a logical conclusion.
What is an inference?
Main character in a story.
Who is the protaganist?
A common, often used expression that doesn't make sense if you take it literally.
What is an idiom
The most exciting moment of the story; turing point.
What is the Climax?
What the passage or story is mostly about.
What is the main idea?
(also acceptable: topic)
Information from the reading that hints at a word's meaning.
What are Context Clues?
An alphabetical listing of names and topics along with page numbers where they are discussed.
What is the index?
An extreme exaggeration.
What is a hyperbole?
Description that appeals to the senses (sight, sound, smell, touch, taste).
What is Imagery?
The lesson or moral of the story.
What is Theme?
Things such as heading, bulleted lists, and graphics that help a reader find important information.
What are Text Features?
Repetition of initial consonant sounds.
What is alliteration?
A word that imitates the sound it represents.
What is Onomatopoeia?
Conversation between two or more characters; put in quotation marks.
What is Dialogue?