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