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A scene from the past

What is a flashback?


100

The reader's feelings related to the text

What is mood?

100

The author's attitude about the topic of the text

What is Tone?

100

when the expectation and the outcome are not the same

What is Irony?
100

When and where a story happens

What is the setting?

200

 Hints at future events

What is foreshadowing?

200

A comparison that does NOT use like or as

What is a metaphor?

200

a comparison that uses like or as

What is a similie?

200

Making light of an uncomfortable situation (normally by telling a joke)

What is are euphemisms?

200

The central idea of a text

What is the theme?

300

A conclusion based on evidence

 What is an inference?


300

The timeline of a story

What is the plot?

300

the smooth connection of ideas, thoughts, or actions

What are transitions?

300

Taking what you know to make a guess about the future

What is a prediction?

300

An extreme exaggeration 

What is a Hyperbole?

400

The best way to support an answer

What is text evidence or citations?

400

The timeline of a story that follows time order

What is a linear plot?

400

the side by side comparison of things to highlight differnces

What is Juxtaposition?

400

The reason an author wrote a text

What is author's purpose?

400

Repeating consonat sounds (peter piper picked.....)

What is alliteration?

500

Help the reader to understand unfamiliar words

What are context clues?

500

Shortens the main idea

What is a summary?

500
Gives credit to the source

What are citations?

500

Plots that share a common theme often being told at the same time

What are parallel plots?

500

A secondary or parallel plot (side story) in addition to the main story

What is a subplot?