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Reading World
terms
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| The repetiton of initial consonant sounds in the words in a sentence. | Alliteration |
| Principal character in opposition to the protagonist.Sometimes a force of nature, society or inner conflict. | Antagonist |
| A word that is the opposite of the word. | Antonym |
| Why did the author write the selection? | Author's Purpose |
| the story of a peson's life written by the person. | Autobiography |
| the story of a peson's life written by another person. | Biography |
| Cause, statements stem for actions for eventsEffect what happens as a result of the event | cause and effect |
| The method an author uses to communicate information about the charcters to the reader | Characterization |
| The moment when the action of the story comes out to its highest point | Climax |
| Compare means to show similarities and contrast means to show diffreneces. | Compare and contrast |
| the end of the readind selection | conclusion |
| struggle between opposing forces in literature | conflict |
| A conflict between charcters such as a family conflict | charcter vs charcter |
| a conflict between a chacter and a force in nature | Charcter vs nature |
| internal conflict which the struggle takes place in the charcters mind. | charcter vs self |
| text to self,world, or text. | connections |
| information within the reading selection that helps the reader figure out the meanings of challening words | context clues |
| the acutal words that the charcters speaks | dialogue |
| to examine or judge | evaluate |
| the background information that the author provides about the story | expostion |
| text written to explain and convey information about a specific topic | expository text |
| a narrative intened to convey a moral or lessonto the reader | fable |
| is it something that can be proven to be true or is it just someone else's point of view | fact vs opion |
| the part of the story following the climax where it declines in dramatic tension | falling action |
| any story that is product of imagination | fiction |
| langauge that can't be taken literally | figurative language |
| technique in which the author interrupts the plot of the story to recreate a incident in earlier time | flashback |
| stories passed down from generations | folktales |
| a writing techinque that give readers clues to what will happen | foreshadowing |
| when you make assumption about differnt events | generalizations |
| categories of literature | genre |
| a diagram used for present information | graphic organizer |
| two or more words that are pronouned alike but have differnt meanings | homonym |
| an exaggerated statement | hyperbole |
| words and phrases used specifically to help the reader imagenin | imagery |
| reading between lines | inference |
| a tone that is created when the speaker inteand to mean the oppisite | irony |
| to say if somethings good or bad | judge |
| humores verse | limerick |
| a comparasion against to unlike things | metaphor |
| the overall feeling created by the author | mood |
| the speaker of the story | narrator |
| writing that is true and the purpose is to inform | nonfiction |
| words whose sounds exspress their meaning | onomatopoeia |
| putting two contradictory words together | oxymoron |
| restate in own words | paraphrase |
| giving lifelike characteristics to inanimate objects | personification |
| the events that occur in the story beginning with the setting and the ending | plot |
| writing that expresses ideas through rhythmic patterns | poetry |
| perspective from which the story is being told | point of view |
| the story is told from the view point of a charcter | thrid person limited point of view |
| all knowing instead of being a charcter in the story | thrid person omniscient point of view |
| making a educated guess | prediction |
| letters added to the beginning of a word to change meaning | prefix |
| the central charcter in the story that is a good guy | protagonist |
| offer your opinion of the reading material | react |
| occurs at the end of a story which inclu7des action after climax | resolution |
| the part that builds to climax | rising action |
| a word to which prefixes and suffixes are added | root word |
| order where events are presented to the reader of in the story | sequential order |
| the enviroment of time and place where the story occurs | setting |
| comparison between two unlike things by using like or as | simile |
| letters at the end of the word to change its meaning | suffix |
| a concise explanation of a reading selection | summarizing |
| details that support the main idea of the passage | supporting details |
| a image object etc that stands for an idea beyond its literal meaning | symbol |
| two or more words that have highly similar meanings | synonym |
| the underlying message of the selection that the author is tryng to convey | theme |
| the clues of the story that suggest the writers own attitude in the story | tone |
| the abilty to see what you are reading | visualization |
| voice is the authors style | voice |
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