6th Grade Reading SOL Review

An exaggerated statement. 

Words that have the opposite meaning.

The main problem in the story.

Words, phrases, or passages that can help you understand the meaning of an unknown word.

Events occurring after the turning point to the end of the story.

Based on facts or real life... not made up.

An expression that does NOT mean what it literally says.

Alphabetized list of names, places, & subjects giving the page where each item is mentioned. 

The story comes to a reasonable ending. All loose ends of the plot are tied up.

Words that have the same meaning.

____________ can be verified or proven. ___________ are usually feelings.

Giving human qualities to something not human.

What part of the story do you find out the setting and characters?

Something happens because of another event.

The use of your five senses.

The message or deep meaning about life shown by a story.

An alphabetical collection of specialist terms & meanings, located in the back of the book.

Use what you know with what the story tells you to make a prediction.

A book that lists words related to each other in meaning, usually giving synonyms and antonyms.

A figure of speech that compares two different things, using the words like or as.

Two or three letters that comes before the word that change the meaning of the word.

Two or three letters that comes after the word that change the meaning of the word.

A similarity between like features of two things, which a comparison may be based.

The series of events that lead to the climax of the story.

Repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words.

A word that makes a sound.

A technique used by authors to predict something will happen later.

A figure of speech that compares two different things NOT using the words like or as

A list of the parts of a book that are organized in how each part appears in the book.

Stories that are made-up, not true, or not real.