Vocabulary
Figures of Speech
Reading Strategies
Characters
Events
100
The main character in any story.
Protagonist
100
A comparison using like or as
simile
100
What kind of question requires only and explicit answer.
Thin
100
Who is the protagonist of the text?
Scout
100
What is the setting of To Kill A Mockingbird
Maycomb 1930's
200
When and where a story takes place.
Setting
200
Giving non-human objects human characteristics.
Personification
200
When you think about what you know about the world and the text and then you make a logical guess you are doing what?
Making an Inference
200
This person has worked for the Finches all her life.
Calpurnia
200
What economic disaster took place just before the book begins?
Stock Market Crash
300
The background information in the text.
Exposition
300
Making two unequal things equal.
Metaphor
300
When you are visualizing and you draw a picture you need to include what?
A caption/Description of the picture.
300
This person is Atticus' sister.
Alexandra
300
What happened the night Jem, Dill, and Scout tried to look in the shutters of the Radley house?
Nathan Radley saw them and shot up in the air to warn them. or Jem lost his pants running away after they got shot at and when he went back for his pants they were all sewed up.
400
The events in the story
Plot
400
An exaggeration
Hyperbole
400
What do you need to identify when determining the most important part of a text before you find evidence to support your idea?
Central Idea
400
This person makes cakes for the kids and says people with background in Maycomb see people as equal
Miss Maudie
400
Who pressed charges against Tom Robinson?
Ewell family
500
When the audience knows more than the the characters in the story do.
Dramatic Irony
500
Using the same sound several times in the same sentence.
Alliteration
500
There are three different types of connections you can make. What are they?
Text to world Text to text Text to self
500
This person drinks Coke from a brown paper sack and has mixed children.
Dolphus Raymond
500
What did Scout hear when the tire rolled into the Radley yard?
Laughing