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Reading Skills
Literature Notes
Figurative Language
Vocabulary
100
The protagonist and narrator.
Who is Annemarie?
100
This may require a lot of time, but is worth it to help you process and remember what you read.
What is reading the whole passage?
100
Something that can be proven versus something that cannot be proven.
What are fact and opinion?
100
A wild exaggeration to make a point.
What is hyperbole?
100
To knock or fall over.
What is topple?
200
Copenhagen, Denmark during World War II
What is the setting?
200
Often found before the beginning of a text, this can give you an important clue about the main idea—and sometimes be as short as one word.
What is title?
200
The problem or problems in a story.
What is conflict?
200
Words or phrases that make the reader feel like they are there in the story; descriptive language.
What is imagery?
200
Small or insignificant--it doesn't really matter.
What is petty?
300
Flint, Michigan in the year 1963
What is the setting of the novel?
300
Often one or two sentences at the beginning of a text, the ___________ _______________ will tell you what the text as a whole is about.
What is main idea?
300
The three types of literary point of view.
What are first person, third person limited, and third person omniscient?
300
A comparison that uses "like" or "as."
What is a simile?
300
A daydream.
What is reverie?
400
Good reader, easy-going, overly trusting
What are Kenny's main character traits?
400
These can help you figure out what a question is asking.
What are key words?
400
The main features or aspects of a character's personality and nature, learned from what they say and do in the story.
What are character traits?
400
Giving human characteristics to something nonhuman.
What is personification?
400
To judge or consider something to be a certain way.
What is deem?
500
The importance of families sticking together, loving each other in spite of flaws.
What is the theme of the novel?
500
These can help you figure out unfamiliar words or what’s going on in a text you may be having trouble understanding.
What are context clues?
500
Using your own knowledge and common sense combined with context clues to understand something about a story that is not stated outright.
What is making an inference?
500
A comparison that does not use "like" or "as."
What is metaphor?
500
To feel deep regret for something you did wrong, and to try to make up for it.
What is repent?