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100

This is written in first-person point of view and gives details about important events and people in the author's life.

What is a memoir?

100

Finding important details in the text using highlighting, underlining, or circling.

What is annotating?

100

The perspective from which a story is told or narrated.

What is point of view?

100

Deciding if you agree or disagree with a claim.

What is evaluating?

100

This is when things are closely the same.

What is similar?

100

This means to show or explain something.

What is express?

200

This is the main reason why the author wrote the text.

What is author's purpose?

200

Relating a piece of text to your own life.

What is connecting?

200

The writer's position or opinion on a topic.

What is a claim?

200

The evidence and reasoning that supports a claim.

What is trace?

200

This is someone that is narrating a poem.

Who is a speaker?

200

This is when an author tells an idea.

What is convey?

300

This is a personal narrative written in the form of a poem.

What is memoir in verse?

300

Looking for deeper meaning in a text.

What is analyzing?

300

The personalities that readers hear as they read a text.

What is voice?

300

Exaggerations of the truth for effect.

What is hyperbole?
300

Words around a word or phrase that help us figure out the definition.

What are context clues?

300

This is another way to say the main or central idea.

What is main message?

400

Writing what you read in your own words.

What is paraphrasing?
400

Another way to say the main idea of the text.

What is the central idea?

400

A story from this perspective includes the author's personal feelings, beliefs, or opinions.

What is subjective point of view?

400

This is a small piece of a bigger story or text.

What is an excerpt?

400

This is when words are repeated over and over by the author.

What is repitition?

400

This is when something helps or has an impact on something in a story.

What is influence?

500

Using what you read to make a logical guess (makes sense)

What is infer?

500

The emotion the author wants the reader to feel while reading a text.

What is mood?

500

A story is told from this perspective when using facts not opinions.

What is objective point of view?

500

This is when the author makes something clear as the story goes along.

What is developing?

500

Words or phrases that are similar.

What is parallelism?

500

This is when a character changes in a story.

What is turning point?