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FCAT Vocab Review
Use this vocab list to review the reading skills that will help you ace the FCAT
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| conflict | the problem a character faces in the story |
| climax | the “moment of truth,” the most exiting point of the story |
| resolution | the end of the story that explains how the conflict is resolved |
| characterization | how an author describes a character |
| theme | the lesson the author wants you to learn from the story |
| mood | the emotional feeling created by the setting of the story |
| tone | the author’s attitude toward the topic of their writing |
| fact | a statement that can be proven to be true |
| opinion | someone’s belief about a topic that cannot be proven |
| main idea | a statement that tells what the ENTIRE passage is about |
| inference | a fact not directly told in the passage, but that you can put together by looking at the evidence |
| cause | an event that causes other things to happen |
| effect | an event that happens as the result of another event |
| author’s purpose | the reason why the author wrote the passage |
| context clues | words and phrases that help you guess the meaning of an unknown word |