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Drawing a comparisonto something far different in order to show a similarity in some respect such as words having a similar relationship.
Example: There are plenty of fish in the sea |
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| The anti-hero, villian, enemy, or rival. |
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| Break down into parts and explain the parts |
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The repetition of a sound at the beginning of two or more neighboring words.
Example: The babbling brook began in my backyard. |
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| Reference book that contains maps |
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Why something was written ... either to persuade, to inform, to entertain.
(Remember: it's easy as PIE) |
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List of sources used as reference |
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| Story of a person's life written by another person |
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| Central Idea or Main idea |
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| What the selection/text is mostly about |
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Events put in order in which they occurred; in time order |
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Arrange into groups by common qualities |
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| Major turning point in the action....the highest point |
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| To look at two or more things and notice similarities and differences |
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| Grouping of objects, events, or ideas that have similar characteristics. |
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| Short or brief ... to the point |
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Determine something based on information and reasoning |
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Struggle between opposing forces or people |
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| One after another in order |
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| Parts of text that surround a word that can explain its meaning |
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| To tell how things or people are different |
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| Questions based on 2 different texts, focusing on similarities/differences |
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| Describe, explain, or illustrate a concept using examples. evidence and details |
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| Conversation between characters |
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| Use evidence or standards to make a judgement |
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| Examples from the text; proof |
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| Struggle from an outside force |
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Not including; something that does not belong. |
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| Take detailed facts and come up with the “big idea” |
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A type or category of written work or music
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Exaggeration used to emphasize a point.
Example: My backpack weighs 1,000 pounds! |
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Make an educated guess based on facts or evidence. |
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Struggle for a need, a desire, or emotion from within yourself.
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What authors use to make writing come to life
(Like personification, idioms, metaphors, similes, etc.)
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Comparison of two UNlike things without using the words “like” or “as.”
Example: The sun was a fireball in the morning sky.
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| A reason to act in a certain way. |
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| A story, whether fiction or non-fiction. |
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| A poem told in story form. |
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Writing that is all true.
Example: Biography or Informational |
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| A fancy word for a magazine. |
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Giving human characteristics to non-human things.
Example: The wind whispered to the runaways. |
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Use evidence to convince someone to believe something.
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| Two or more words; part of a sentence |
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| The storyline, plan or main story of a literary piece. Usually includes rising action, a turning point, falling action, and a conflict. |
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| A specific stand or view on an issue. |
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| The hero or good guy/girl in the story. |
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| Guess as to what will happen next based on clues or evidence. |
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| The solution to a problem or conflict. |
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| The order of something; putting one right after another. |
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A figure of speech where two unlike things are being compared using the words “like” or “as.'
Example: They ran as fast as lightening at the end of the race.
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A division of a poem with a series of lines arranged together to look like a paragraph, usually a repeating pattern of rhythm and rhyme.
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| The breif restatement of ideas, usually in order. |
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The author’s message, or the moral or lesson to be learned.
This is NOT the topic. |
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| Character Traits or Attributes |
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| How a character is described, usually focusing on the looks, how they act, what they do, and what others say about that character. |
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A problem in a story:
man v. man
man v. self
man v. nature
man v. society |
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| The mathematical term for subtraction. |
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| The answer to an addition problem. |
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| The answer to a multiplication problem. |
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| The answer to a division problem. |
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What comes before.
Example: Question 30 asks about the passage that comes before this question or the ____________ question. |
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