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