When an author does not state the main idea, he ________________ it.
What is implies?
100
The three main reasons an author writes.
What are to inform, entertain, and persuade?
100
The word "different" is a signal word used when an author is _________________two things.
What is contrasting?
100
The part of the story in which the basic situation is outlined and the characters, setting and main conflict are introduced.
What is the exposition?
100
Two elements of figurative language that compare.
What are metaphor and simile?
200
When completing the questions after a Wild Side story, an answer that focuses on one small detail is too ____________.
What is narrow?
200
When authors wants his readers to laugh, cry, scream, feel scared or feel sympathy, he is trying to ___________them.
What is entertain?
200
Billy, like his brother, enjoys fishing and hunting.
The signal word in the above sentence is__________and shows a_________________.
What is like, comparison?
200
The event following the climax in which any remaining issues are resolved.
What is resolution?
200
The term used for an author's over-exaggeration.
What is hyperbole?
300
Descriptions, facts, examples, or statistics an author uses to support the main idea are called________________.
What are details?
300
An article titled, "Buy Fruity Pebbles," would likely be written to___________________.
What is persuade?
300
Venn Diagram
What is a graphic organizer used to compare and contrast something?
300
"The old charts call it Ship-Trap Island," Whitney replied. "A suggestive name,isn't it? Sailors have a curious dread of the place."
The author of the above sentence is using ____________to hint at what will happen later in the story.
What is foreshadowing?
300
The stars were brilliant diamonds perched on beds of clouds. This sentence contains a ______________.
What is metaphor?
400
Taking text from a story and putting it in your own words is considered_________________.
What is paraphrasing?
400
Hummingbirds' tiny hearts beat over 1,000 times per minute and some species make annual migrations of over 2,000 miles per year. Based on the above opening, this article was likely written to ___________________.
What is inform?
400
Two elements of text an author might compare or contrast.
What are point of view, setting, plot, tone, character, theme, organizational pattern, author's purpose.
400
The point when a story is interrupted to tell about events that took place in the past is a __________________.
What is flashback?
400
The waves crashed over us like they came from the hose of an angry firefighter. This is an example of a __________.
What is simile?
500
When completing the questions after a Wild Side story, an answer that is too general is considered too________________.
What is broad?
500
Name one thing that would show that an author is biased.
What are 1) Choice of words; 2) Descriptions; 3) Facts he left out of the text; 4) His choice of details to include in the text
500
Jimmy likes cornbread, while his sister Mary prefers biscuits. Is this sentence comparing or contrasting and what word confirms your answer?
What are contrasting and while?
500
The atmosphere of a story that affects the way a reader feels as he reads.
What is mood?
500
The giant oak tree looked down upon us with an angry scowl? The literary term for the technique used in this sentence?