AIR Test Super Quiz

The general or literal meaning of a word (example: home is a place where a person lives)

The degree of correspondence among or connection between parts, ideas, concepts, or constructs

Text or dialogue in which there is a root sense of hiding what is actually the case

To apply a procedure to an unfamiliar task; to put into practice

A genre designed for performance in the theater with actors

The repetition of speech sounds in the beginning of nearby words

A grouping of lines of verse in a poem often set off by a space in the printed text

Intended or suggested rather than directly stated

Relationships created between new and familiar words, concepts, and ideas

Spoken and written language that departs from literal meaning in both pattern and usage

What may be suggested by or associated with the meaning of a word (example: home may suggest warmth or family)

An original text used largely for informational purposes, as in research. (examples: journals, photos, research data)

A text used for informational purposes that analyzes, interprets, or critiques primary sources, as in research

To combine the sounds represented by letters in order to pronounce a word or word part (example: snail)

Main topic of a story expressed or implied in a word or phrase, big enough to cover the entire scope of a literary work

A type of speech or written communication that develops or debates a topic in a logical or persuasive way

To write the appearance, nature, and/or attributes of elements or ideas in text using vivid language

A reference in a text to a literary or historical person, place, event, or other literary work

Points of information in a text that strongly support the meaning or tell the story

Understand and explain the meaning of

A narrator who is outside the story proper and refers to all of the characters as he, she, or they

A narrator who is a participant in the story and uses the pronouns I and me

To describe or outline with precision

The goal a reader or writer seeks to attain

A subtle difference in a shade of meaning, expression, or sound

The intended target group of a message (example: such as teenagers for young adult literature)

Compositions written in meter

A short, concise statement of widely accepted truth about everyday life (example: "Actions speak louder than words.")

A conclusion logically drawn from presented information

A story involving events, characters, and what the characters say and do

To make judgments about the value of ideas, purposes, or claims of a text based on criteria and standards

The general place, historical time, and social circumstances in which action occurs in a story or play

The technique of disrupting the order of events in a story by shifting to an earlier time in order to introduce info

To analyze (break down) spoken words or graphic symbols/units of a familiar language to discover their intended meaning

Words or expressions with meaning other than the literal interpretation

A word having a similar meaning (example: cold : chilly)

The main idea

To evaluate or measure the nature, ability, or quality of

Print features, as well as graphic, informational, and organizational aids (examples: maps, charts, labels, headings)

To identify elements and fit them into an existing structure

Condensing a text to its general theme(s) and/or major points

The structure of the action of a story in its chronological order

The emotion(s) expressed by an author or artist in the rhetoric, structure, and/or perspective of his or her work

A principle or value of human behavior

The basic part of a word that carries the main component of meaning

Lack of certainty on the part of a concerned reader about what will happen to characters with whom the reader has a bond

A comparison between two distinctly different things indicated by the word "like" or "as" (example: "quiet as a mouse")

Chiefly in literary texts, the narrative point of view (as in first- or second- or third-person narration)

Taking words in their usual or most basic sense without metaphor or allegory

When an inanimate object or an abstract concept is spoken of as though it has human attributes or feelings

A type or style of literature / story (examples: fiction, drama, poetry)

Repetition of the last stressed vowel and of all the speech sounds following that vowel

A personal view, attitude, or appraisal

Use of details from the five senses to appeal to the reader

A group of words containing both a subject and a predicate (example: "when she went to the store, he sang")

Directly stated

To make judgments about the value of ideas, purposes, or claims of a text based on criteria and standards

The author's attitude reflected in the style of the written word

To translate from the original text into one's own words

A word having the opposite meaning of another word (example: cool is the opposite of warm).

Repetition of the last stressed vowel and of all the speech sounds following that vowel

The act of a character in a drama, alone on stage, uttering his thoughts aloud

The part of writing that involves editing and reworking text relative to task, purpose, and audience

To detect similarities or differences between two or more ideas, objects, concepts, and other elements from a text

An affix attached before a root word

A saying that sets forth a general truth that has gained credibility through use over time (ex: "No pain, no gain.")

A group of words not containing a subject and a predicate (example: running in the rain)

Phrases or expressions that have meanings different from the literal (ex: "Kids clean their rooms once in a blue moon.")

A position from which something is considered or evaluated

The parts of a written or spoken statement that precede or follow a specific word or passage

The verbal interaction between two or more characters in a dramatic or narrative work Diction

Words, phrases, or sentences that establish connections and fluency between ideas when writing or speaking

The subdivision of acts in a play in which there is no change of place or in the continuity of time

Separating the individual phonemes, or sounds, of a word into distinct units

A short narrative that contains a moral or principle of human behavior (example: Aesop's The Tortoise and the Hare)

Persons represented in a dramatic or narrative work

To make the meaning more transparent and easy to understand

Type of comparison in which a word or expression's literal usage and meaning is applied to a distinctly different thing

Written or spoken language that is not verse

A deliberate and humorous play on words that are the same or similar in sound but different in meaning

The events and actions of a narrative work: Introduction, Rising Action, Climax, Falling Action, Resolution

A word part that is "fixed to" either the beginnings of words (prefixes) or the endings of words (suffixes)

The practice of taking someone else's work or ideas and passing them off as one's own

Arguable statements intended to dispute other claims

The motive or reason for which an author writes, as to entertain, inform, or persuade

Story of ancient origin that a particular cultural group believes to be a true explanation of why the world is as it is

To make evident or prove

Writing about instruction, study, or research that is meant to reveal or further clarify by describing in more detail

Indicates differences

Arranging ideas and details in a clear and coherent way to create an effective message

A narrator who addresses a story to a someone he or she calls "you"

The person in a fictional narrative who relates the account or story

A short narrative in prose of unknown authorship which has been a part of an oral tradition over generations

To break material down into its parts and determine how the parts relate to one another and to the overall text

A process of arranging and combining pieces, parts, and elements into a pattern or structure not clearly there before

An affix attached to the end of a base, root, or stem that changes the grammatical function of the word

An arguable statement

To make clear by describing in more detail or giving relevant facts or ideas

The main argument presented by a writer who then attempts to prove it throughout the remainder of the piece of writing

A story in metrical form and that expresses an idea using figurative language; (examples: narrative, dramatic and lyric)