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Reading And Writing Vocab
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. The components of a narrative story: setting - characters and plot (problem and solution)
Excerpt
Primary Sources
Story Elements
Content
2. The result; happens second
Effect
Cause
Setting
Summarize
3. Words pronounced the same but have a different meaning and spelling
Plot
Personification
Homophone/Homonym
Narrative Writing
4. The action or event - happens first
Resolution
Genre
Author's Viewpoint
Cause
5. The authors hints or clues about what is going to happen in the story
Foreshadowing
Narrative Writing
Climax
Effect
6. The solution in the story
Resolution
Paraphrase
Plot
Third Person Point of View
7. A passage taken out of a book
Excerpt
Opinion
Jargon
Hyperbole
8. One of the five domains of writing: detailed examples - sophisticated sentences; etc.
Content
Rhyme
Homophone/Homonym
Flashback
9. A comparison of two things without like or as
Metaphor
Primary Sources
Synonym
Third Person Point of View
10. A phrase or expression that means something different from what the words actually say
Idiom
Fact
Summarize
Jargon
11. Identical or very recurring final sounds in words usually at the end of the lines
Paraphrase
Context Clues
Main Idea
Rhyme
12. Stating in your own words the important things you have read
Biography
Idiom
Antonym
Summarize
13. Having an opposite meaning to the word
Summarize
Nonfiction
Rhyme
Antonym
14. One of the five domains of writing; transition words - paper has a flow to it; beginning - middle - and end; sequencing
Idiom
Third Person Point of View
Organization
Flashback
15. A category used to classify literary works: drama - historical fiction - fantasy - mystery - realistic fiction - etc.
Stanza
Fact
Genre
Informational Writing
16. A conclusion drawn from specific information that is used to make a broad statement about a topic
Rhyme
Nonfiction
Author's Viewpoint
Generalization
17. Using surrounding words or phrases to help you understand the meaning of a word
Paraphrase
Context Clues
Simile
Compare
18. Having a similar meaning to the word
Nonfiction
Synonym
Biography
Persuasive Writing
19. The differences
Author's Purpose
Third Person Point of View
Persuasive Writing
Contrast
20. To restate the information in your own words
Conventions
Paraphrase
Generalization
Summarize
21. Conversation between two characters in a story
Informational Writing
Dialogue
Bias
Content
22. A repetition of beginning sounds of two or more words
Jargon
Alliteration
Paraphrase
Character Traits
23. The author's intent: to persuade - to entertain - to inform or teach
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24. The story of a person's life written by someone else
Simile
Homophone/Homonym
Biography
Focus
25. A story that is not true; a product of imagination
Compare
Fiction
Synonym
Poetry
26. What someone thinks or feels and can be argued
Genre
Biography
Text Organization
Opinion
27. A writing piece where the writer is trying to convince or persuade the reader to agree with him or her
Dialogue
Third Person Point of View
Fiction
Persuasive Writing
28. The similarities
Idiom
Persuasive Writing
Hyperbole
Compare
29. The effects of rhythm; the use of meter - imagery; examples: haiku - cinquain - etc.
Poetry
Secondary Sources
Inference
Simile
30. A comparison of two things using like or as
Simile
Idiom
Synonym
Contrast
31. One of the five domains; capitalization - punctuation - complete sentences - spelling - etc.
Climax
Conventions
Content
Effect
32. Sources which are taken from an original work; example: books
Resolution
Bias
Secondary Sources
Paraphrase
33. The author's central thought; the overall idea in a paragraph or passage
First Person Point of View
Context Clues
Primary Sources
Main Idea
34. How the author thinks or feels about a particular topic
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35. Text or first-hand account of an event; example: interview
Autobiography
Primary Sources
Organization
Secondary Sources
36. The structure of a story; includes the problem and solution
Biography
Bias
Plot
Genre
37. How the author organizes the information in the story: by main ideas and details - by sequence of events - or by cause and effect - etc.
Secondary Sources
Synonym
Inference
Text Organization
38. Personalities of a character: honest - determined - loyal - etc.
Resolution
Narrative Writing
Character Traits
Content
39. Each character in the story is referred by the narrator as 'he' or 'she'
Third Person Point of View
Alliteration
Climax
Autobiography
40. A judgment based on reasoning rather than a direct or explicit statement
Story Elements
Nonfiction
Inference
Character Traits
41. Story that is true; a product of factual information
Poetry
Nonfiction
Onomatopoeia
Paraphrase
42. An exaggeration or overstatement
Setting
Alliteration
Context Clues
Hyperbole
43. The story of a person's life written by himself or herself
Excerpt
Hyperbole
Autobiography
First Person Point of View
44. The story is relayed by a narrator who is also a character in the story; uses 'I' throughout the story
Author's Viewpoint
Stanza
Opinion
First Person Point of View
45. A tendency to favor one side; a prejudice
Bias
Character Traits
Setting
Foreshadowing
46. A writing piece that tells a story that has a beginning - middle - and end; has characters - setting - problem & solution
Main Idea
Bias
Text Organization
Narrative Writing
47. Technical language of a particular group
Jargon
Synonym
Author's Purpose
Summarize
48. A writing piece that informs or explains something
Antonym
Informational Writing
Summarize
Stanza
49. Sound effect words
Third Person Point of View
Onomatopoeia
Cause
Character Traits
50. The introduction of a past event into a story
Author's Purpose
Main Idea
Third Person Point of View
Flashback