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Language Skills
Reading Literature
Plot
Point of View & Themes
Figurative Language
100
A hint within a sentence, or in surrounding sentences, that will help you infer, or figure out what a word or phrase means.
What is a Context Clue
100
The design an author uses to tell his or her ideas
What is structure
100
The people in the story
What are characters
100
The vantage point from which the story is told
What is point of view
100
Comparison of two things not using like or as
What is a metaphor
200
Added to the end of a root word, e.g. doubt + ful= doubtful
What is a Suffix
200
Fiction, NonFiction, Mystery, Science Fiction, Folktale, Myths
What are genres
200
The series of events that happen in the story
What is the plot
200
The point of view which the narrator is telling the story
What is first person point of view
200
Comparison of two things, using like or as
What is simile
300
A comparison that explains one word or idea by comparing it to something else that readers may know more about
What is an analogy
300
Facts, details and examples to support your ideas
What is evidence
300
The most exciting or turning point in a story
What is the climax
300
The point of view in which the narrator is not part of the action
What is third person point of view
300
Giving an inanimate object human qualities
What is personification
400
A word added to the beginning of a word, e.g. un + grateful= ungrateful
What is a prefix
400
An intelligent guess you make using the clues you have
What is an inference
400
The part of the story where the characters, setting and conflict are first introduced
What is the exposition
400
The central idea of a story written in one or two words
What is theme
400
The use of language that goes beyond literal meanings
What is figurative language
500
A word or word part that contains the word's basic meaning
What is a root word
500
Giving a brief account of the main ideas or events and the most important details
What is summarizing
500
the five elements of plot
What is exposition, rising action, climax, falling action and resolution
500
An object, person, place or event that is used to stand for an idea
What is a symbol
500
an example of alliteration
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