Reading Vocabulary 5th Grade

Question 1

The perspective from which a story is told.

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Point of View

Question 2

The reason the author has for writing. (To inform, persuade, entertain.)

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Author's Purpose

Question 3

To find the opposite of a word.

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Antonym

Question 4

To communicate or express.

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Convey

Question 5

A beginning or coming into being.

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Origin

Question 6

To demonstrate that something is right; to defend with reasons

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Justify

Question 7

A practical lesson about right and wrong.

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Moral

Question 8

When a portion of the story goes back in time?

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Flashback

Question 9

To say something is larger or greater than it really is. To stretch the truth.

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Exaggerate

Question 10

The reason why something happens.

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Cause

Question 11

To disagree, to say the opposite.

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Contradict

Question 12

Finding a solution to a problem.

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Resolution

Question 13

A writing that tells how to do something.

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Procedural

Question 14

Instructions for actors and stage crew, usually in italics.

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Stage directions

Question 15

In the time order in which events happened.

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Chronological

Question 16

The various methods of communicating information.

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Media

Question 17

What is told from the viewpoint of one of the characters using pronouns?

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1st person

Question 18

To give the wrong idea, to deceive and to send someone in the wrong direction.

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Mislead

Question 19

Where and when the story takes place.

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Setting

Question 20

A division or the type of literature.

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Genre

Question 21

Comparison using the words like or as.

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Simile

Question 22

A fictional tale that explains the actions of gods or the causes of a natural phenomena.

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Myth

Question 23

A story written to be performed by actors; a play.

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Drama

Question 24

Writing that is factual, not creative or fictional.

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Nonfictional

Question 25

The use of words that imitate sounds.

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Onomatopoeia

Question 26

The narrator focuses on the thoughts and feelings of only 1 character.

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3rd person limited point of view

Question 27

The repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words.

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Alliteration

Question 28

Brief statement of the main events of a story.

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Summary

Question 29

A drawing that shows or explains something.

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Diagrams

Question 30

A literary work based on the imagination and not necessarily on fact.

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Fiction

Question 31

Used to convince the reader point of the writer point of view.

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Persuasive

Question 32

Small text found near a picture that provides important info. about the picture.

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Caption

Question 33

A conversation between 2 persons.

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Dialogue

Question 34

The story of a person's life written by the person in 1st person point of view.

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Autobiography

Question 35

The use of clues to suggest events that will happen later in the plot.

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Foreshadowing

Question 36

The person telling the story.

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Narrator

Question 37

Giving human qualities to nonhuman things.

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Personification

Question 38

Clues in surrounding text that help the reader determine the meaning of an unknown word.

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Context Clues

Question 39

What a piece of writing is mainly about?

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Main Idea

Question 40

To find a word that is similar to a word or means the same thing.

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Synonym

Question 41

The problem in the story.

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Conflict

Question 42

Poetry that does not contain regular patterns of rhythm.

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Free Verse

Reading Vocabulary 5th Grade

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Reading Vocabulary 5th Grade

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