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