Testing Vocabulary Practice

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What are organizational structures in writing?

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Organizational structures are frameworks that help organize ideas in writing, such as chronological order, cause and effect, compare and contrast, and problem and solution.

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What point of view is used in the sentence: 'He went to the store.'?

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Third Person.

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What does it mean to infer in a literary context?

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To come to a reasonable conclusion based on evidence found in the text.

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What is the theme of a literary passage?

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The lesson or message of the passage.

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What is a simile?

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A figure of speech that compares two different things using 'like' or 'as', e.g., 'She is as pretty as a picture.'

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What is chronological order?

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A way of organizing information according to the sequence of events.

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What is cause and effect?

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A relationship where one event (the cause) makes another event happen (the effect).

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What does compare and contrast mean?

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To examine the similarities and differences between two or more subjects.

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What is a metaphor?

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A figure of speech that makes a direct comparison between two unlike things without using 'like' or 'as', e.g., 'Time is a thief.'

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What is personification?

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A literary device where human qualities are attributed to animals, inanimate objects, or abstract concepts.