Mrs. Jacobs Reading Review

Question 1

A type of literature that expresses ideas and feelings typically inlcudes lines and stanzas

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poetry

Question 2

The words that characters speak to each other

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Dialogue

Question 3

A story about the author and written by the author

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Autobiography

Question 4

The actors who play roles in a play

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Cast

Question 5

In order to pass the STAAR test you must

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All of the above

Question 6

Story that is not real, read to enjoy, and inlcudes illutrations

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fiction

Question 7

Non-fiction text the explains and provides information about a topic

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Expository

Question 8

This is a brief summary of each paragraph in the story to help the reader better understand

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gist

Question 9

A problem in the story is also know as

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Conflict

Question 10

The person outside the story whose perspective the story is told?

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narrator

Question 11

Where the story takes place

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Setting

Question 12

Saying something other than what is literally meant

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Figurative Language

Question 13

What a story is mostly about

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Central/Main Idea

Question 14

Another word for a play

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drama

Question 15

The purpose for which the author writes

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Author's Purpose

Question 16

The most intense or exciting part of the story

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climax

Question 17

The writer uses the five senses to engage the reader

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Sensory detail

Question 18

Using your background knowledge and the text

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inference

Question 19

The repetition of the same initial consonant sound in a series of words

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alliteration

Question 20

This tells the reader how to do someting step by step

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Procedural Text

Question 21

An exaggeration that cannot possibly be true

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hyperbole

Question 22

Provide this to support every answer

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text evidence

Question 23

All of these are examples of the author's purpose EXCEPT

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Explain

Question 24

Folktales, fables, fairytales, myths

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Traditional Literature

Question 25

A kind of literary work

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Genre

Question 26

Words whose sound suggest their meaning

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onomatopoeia

Question 27

The items used by an actors in a play

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Props

Question 28

Titles, subheadings, illustrations, and captions

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text features

Question 29

The moral or lesson learned from a story

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Theme

Question 30

comparison of two unlike objects using the words "like" or "as"

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simile

Mrs. Jacobs Reading Review

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Mrs. Jacobs Reading Review

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