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What is the resolution to a story?
An idea or a principle that is untrue
The main point a writer wants to communicate with a text
The reason the author wrote the passage
The ending of a story, when the conflict is resolved
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To summarize part or all of a text in your own words
Personification
Verbatum
Similar
Paraphrase
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To study the similarities between two things
Compare
Claim
Contrast
Climax
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Her eyes were like diamonds is an example of a.....
simile
methaphor
personification
allusion
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Something written by a witness at the time an event occurred
Rising action
Dialogue
Caricature
Primary source
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What is a solution?
A collection of scenes that form a major part of a play
The repetition of a beginning sound of a word
A resolution to a conflict or a way of overcoming difficulty
A prostration of events in the order in which they happened
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What is a root?
The main part of a word
The main point a writer wants to communicate with a text
The ending of a story, when the conflict is resolved
The time and location in which a story takes place
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What is a anomatopoeia?
a symbol that represents something else
a difference between two things
a poem
a word that represents a sound, for example, pow!
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A reference to a famous person, event or work of literature
Aphorism
Opinion
Allusion
Solution
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I told you a million times not to fight.
hyperbole
personification
comparison
synonym
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The silly, small seal swam super in the sprawling sea. What literary device is this?
Simile
alliteration
Analogy
Hyperbole
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what is theme?
The bulk of the story, characters resolve the problem
The reason something happens, such as an event or actions
The central message or lesson of a literary work
The turning point of the story, usually the most exciting
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A text in which the author is trying to convince the reader of something
Sequence
Persuasive text
Paraphrase
Procedural text
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Someone who tells the story in a work of fiction
Root
Narrator
Diagram
Analogy
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What is dialogue?
The central message or lesson of a literary work
Extra information that is not necessary
What a character is saying
The main point a writer wants to communicate with a text
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a play written to be preformed. The story is divided into acts and scenes and stage directions
drama
trait
theme
graph
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What is the best food?
Hamburgers
Sushi
Tacos
Pizza
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any platform used to reach a large audience, such as radio, television, internet and newspapers
Map
Media
drama
Claim
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What is author's purpose?
the reason something happens, such as an event or action
The repetition of phrases that have the same structure
The reason the author wrote the passage
A reason that a character acts the way he does
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The reason why a character acts the way he or she does
narrator
resolution
media
motivation
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A quality that defines a character
Trait
Prose
Tone
Graph
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what is the climax of a story?
The turning point, usually the most exciting part
The bulk of the story, when the character works to resolve
The reason something happens
The beginning of the story
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A word or phrase in the text around an unfamiliar word that helps you know the word's meaning
Tone
Factual claim
Loaded term
Context clue
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The biggest part of the story, during which the character works to resolve the problem
Opinion
Motivation
Directions
Rising action
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What is the exposition of a story?
The turning point in a story, usually the most exciting part
in a story, when the setting and characters are introduced
The main part of a word
The ending of a story, when the conflict is resolved
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What type of poem is usually long and tell the tale of a hero, soldier or mighty character?
free verse
prose
epic
haiku
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What do we call a story line or what happens in a story?
interjection
plot
summary
climax
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Aspects of writing that reveal emotions that an author brings to a subject
Theme
Tone
Plot
Table
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A representation of events in chronological order
tone
timeline
scene
theme
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a comparison that uses two unlike things or ideas by stating that one thing is another
Hyperbole
Metaphor
Personification
Allusion
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a person, animal or other creature in a work of fiction
theme
character
root
narrator
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The point in a story when the conflict begins to be resolved.
Climax
Exposition
Plot
Falling action
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To use details in a passage and what you know to make an educated guess about an idea
Scene
Legend
Infer
Promise
34
An arrangement of information in columns and rows
Problem
Scene
Table
Theme
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Something written after an event occurred by someone who didn't witness the event.
Primary source
Narrator
Metaphor
Secondary source
