I-READY 8th grade READING

A lyric poem expresses personal thoughts and feelings.

An _______ helps someone understand an unfamiliar thing or idea.

What is a compound word?

Superlatives are words taht compare 3 or more things.

When making a conclusion that is based on facts combined with what you already know is called what?

What are possessives?

A reference to an event or character in a literary work is called what?

Are scientific accounts informational or not informational?

Another word for the main idea is what?

A dialogue is the conversation between characters.

What kind of writing is a longer work of fiction?

Another word for explaining what the reader observes can be called what?

Another word for messages, or the heart of what the author is writing about.

An author's point of view is not what he or she thinks, feels, or believes.

A possessive are words that do not show who or what owns something

A _____ is a piece of writing that uses language in an unusual way to express emotions, ideas, or experiences.

Idioms are phrases with meanings that are different from the meaning of the individual words.

By developing a central idea the author must also give what?

What is true about persuasive essays?

A _________ is a story or play to be acted out on a stage.

An ________is a conclusion based on details in the text and on what the reader already knows from their own experience.

What is a collection of things or ideas that have characteristics in common?

A _________ is written remarks, spoken and delivered to an audience.

______________is information used to support an opinion or belief.

A___is a word or words that have been shortened from their original form. An Apostrophe shows where the letters are gone

An authors's purpose is the main reason he or she creates a piece of writing.

A piece of information from a text is called what?

Informational text is nonfiction.

A metaphor is an implied comparison of 2 seemingly unrelated things.

A ________ is a type of lyric poem.

Briefly retelling the main characters, the setting, conflict. and important events is called what?

Suffixes come at the beginning or words.

The difference in perspectives is called what?

Looking for these are words, phrases, or sentences in the surrounding text that HINT at a word's meaning.

Prefixes come at the end of words.

"Get to the point!" people want you to state _________ clearly and precisely as you can.

To be objective is to be free from your own opinions.