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Benchmark #1 Review
| Concept/Skills | Applied to |
|---|---|
| conclusions and inferences | characters, situations, actions, and setting |
| conflict | struggles character have with opponents |
| connotation | the feeling words imply |
| context clues | determine meaning of unfamiliar words |
| denotation | the dictionary definition of a word |
| dystopia and utopia | settings and situations (bad place and good place) |
| footnote | a note at the bottom of a page (usually for definitions) |
| metaphor | stating or implying that something is something else, without using like or as |
| perspective and point of view | the position from which something or someone is observed |
| protagonist | main character/hero in the story |
| purpose | the reason an author writes a text |
| reader’s senses | the 5 senses readers use to connect to the world |
| summary strategy | writing only main events in an objective, non-personal way |
| superscript | a number written at the end of a word to indicate the definition can be found in a footnote |
| supporting evidence | specific details that prove a conclusion |
| theme | the message from an author to an audience |
| text features | introductory information or footnotes |
| vocabulary from The Giver | meaning of studied words from the novel |