Vocabulary
The reason an author wrote a text.
What is the author's purpose or PIE?
1st selection you complete when you receive your test.
What is the paired passage?
The purpose of a text that has text features like photographs, captions, subheadings, charts, maps, etc.
What is to inform?
The author's purpose of a story.
What is to entertain?
Comparing two things using "like" or "as".
What is a simile?
The words the character speaks
What is dialogue?
Where you can look to find information about a picture in a nonfiction book or article.
What is a caption?
Something that can be proven
What is a fact?
What should you do before you read the passage?
Preview the questions and selection
The text structure when the author gives an issue and how it was solved.
What is problem and solution?
The problem of the story and how it was solved.
What are conflict and resolution?
Giving objects or things human qualities.
What is personification?
What is a story?
A actual picture taken with a camera
What is a photograph?
What a text is mostly about
What a is the main idea?
What does PIE stand for?
Persuad, Inform, Entertain
This is the text structure they author may use to tell similarities and difference between two or more subjects.
What is compare and contrast?
The time and place a story occurs.
What is the setting?
Comparing two things without using like or as.
What is a metaphor?
A person telling the story (within the drama / onstage).
What is a narrator?
What is a map?
Words that help the reader know what an unknown word means
What is a context clue?
What you look for to prove an answer is correct
What is evidence?
The type of text organization that puts details in the order in which they happen.
What is sequence?
How to summarize a story
What is SWBST?
Using 3 or more words in a line with the same beginning sound.
What is alliteration?
An object used in the performance of the play
What is a prop?
short "titles" within the passage that break the text into sections
What are subheadings?
The lesson learned in a story
What is the theme?
You should use this when you don't know what a word in the question or answer choices mean
What is use a dictionary?
This is the text organization an author would use to organize the events in someone's life or tell events in order using dates.
What is chronological order?
When the author uses a narrator that is NOT a character to tell the story and they know the thoughts and feelings of only one character.
What is 3rd person limited?
Words that create sound in the readers mind.
What is onomatopoeia?
What tells people how to move or what to do?
Stage directions
Words that have print that leans to one side.
What are italics?
The people or animals that are in a story.
What is a character?
When you cross out answers you can prove are wrong
What is process of elimination?
This is the text organization an author would use to tell about an event that happened and why it happened.
What is cause and effect?
What you'll look at carefully to determine a character's personality (character traits).
What are the characters Feelings, Actions, Speech and Thoughts?
To give an extreme exaggeration.
What is a hyperbole?
These change with the setting
What are scenes?
Words that stand out that are important.
What is bold print.
When you use clues from a story along with your background knowledge.
What is an inference?
What you should do if you are feeling tired and can't concentrate on the test anymore
What is take a break?
What are text features?
The events of the story
What is the plot?
Cannot be understood by words alone.
What is an idiom?
The author of the play
What is the playwrite?
A photograph or illustration with labels
What is a diagram?