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Reading Vocabulary
2nd six weeks ADM Test 10-28-2011
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What pronouns are used in a story being told from first person point of view? | I, me, my, mine |
| What pronouns are used in a story being told from third person point of view? | They, her, his, their |
| What is the difference between the topic of a story and its theme? | The topic is 1 or 2 words that tell what the story is about and theme is a sentence or two that explains the moral/lesson of the story |
| “She looked as if she had seen a ghost” is an example of which type of figurative language? | simile |
| Where would be the best place to look in a book to check and see if it is a biography? | the blurb |
| In which point of view is an autobiography written? | 1st person point of view |
| How much of one’s life is an autobiography written? | an important part/event |
| Under what type of genre would a fable with talking animals be classified? | fantasy |
| How much of one’s life is a memoir written? | an important part/event |
| What is the biggest difference between autobiography and biography? | Autobiography is in 1st person point of view and biography is in 3rd person point of view |
| What is the definition of a simile? | comparing two or more unlike things using like or as |
| Give an example of a simile. | I was as tired as a horse. |
| What are sensory details? | details using figurative language and using your 5 senses |
| Give an example of a sensory detail appealing to sound/hearing. | The race of man is suffering and I can hear the man. |
| What is personification? | Giving unanimated objects human charcteristics |
| Give an example of personification. | Where water is not thirsty. |
| What is alliteration? | The repetition of the same sounds or of the same kinds of sounds at the beginning of words or in stressed syllables |
| Give an example of alliteration. | "on scrolls of silver snowy sentences" |
| What is onomatopoeia? | words that imitite sounds |
| Give an example of onomatopoeia. | BOOM, BANG, KABOOM |
| What is a metaphor? | A comparison of two unlike things not using like or as. |
| Give an example of a metaphor. | I am sweating buckets. |
| What is imagery? | The use of vivid or figurative language to represent objects, actions, or ideas. |
| To which sense does the following appeal: the rain puddles dotted the roads. | see |
| What is exposition mean? | introduction of setting, characters, backround information and conflict |
| What does setting mean? | time and place a story is |
| What are characters? | people, animals, or other entitles in the text |
| What is conflict mean? | problem |
| What is internal conflict? | a character's struggle within himeself/herself |
| What is external conflict? | a character's struggle with another charcter |
| What is rising action? | events leading up to the climax trying to solve the problem |
| What is climax? | emotional high point of the story; conflict is addressed |
| What is falling action? | consequences or events caused by the climax |
| What is resolution? | final outcome |
| What is a protagonist? | the main character trying to resolve the main conflict |
| What is the antagonist? | is the person against the main character |
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