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Word Parts
Reference Material
Reading Strategies
Literary Elements
Literary devices
100
The histroy of a word; word origins
What is etymology?
100
A book that lists words in alphabetical order and gives the definition.
What is a dictionary
100
You look over the text for key ideas that jump at you.
What is skimming?
100
The sequence of events; expostions, rising action, climax, falling action, and resolution
What is plot?
100
Uses words in ways that mean more than the dictionary definition.
What is figurative language?
200
The main part of a word
What is the root word?
200
It is at the back of a book that provides a short definition for key terms in the book. It is like a dictionary.
What is a glossary?
200
You gues what will happen next.
What is prediction?
200
A scene or event that happened earlier than the beginning of the story.
What is Flashback?
200
The attitude that a writer takes toward the audience. Ex.serious, funny, desperate, angry, and so on.
What is tone?
300
The part at the beginning of a word
What is prefix?
300
Contains synonyms and antonyms for words
What is a thesaurus?
300
Helps you find specific ideas; you look for words or phrases
What is scanning?
300
The underlying message of a story
What is theme?
300
The overall emotion created by a piece of writing. Ex. hopeful, horrific, sad, upbeat, and so on
What is mood?
400
The part at the end of a word.
What is suffix?
400
You can find all your resources on a computer by using this.
What is online resources?
400
A brief way of telling what you have read.
What is summarizing?
400
Who is telling the story; first person, second person, and third person.
What is point-of-view; narrator, you, and he or she
400
A person, place, object, or action that stands for something else.
What is a symbol?
500
Words formed by other words; example: lead to leader to leadership
What is derivatives?
500
Books and online tools that help you find out more about words.
What is Word reference Materials?
500
You take an author's words and put them in to your own words in shorter passages
What is paraphrasing?
500
a way for an author to include clues about how the plot is going to develop.
What is foreshadowing?
500
A comparison that does not use like or as
What is a metaphor?