Test Prep Vocabulary

Part of the story that tells time and place

• setting

• subheadings

• genre

• theme

Why the selection was written- to persuade, inform, or entertain

• subheadings

• author's purpose

• conflict

• resolution

The word that means "opposite"

• antonym

• synonym

• hyperbole

• metaphor

To tell how two things are the same

• contrast

• conflict

• compare

• theme

The message of a story

• resolution

• conflict

• theme

• genre

categories of literature

• genre

• types

• subheadings

• literature guides

The problem in a story

• author's purpose

• evidence

• situation

• conflict

What you need to find in the text to support the answers you've given.

• evidence

• genre

• definitions

• opinions

The type of literature that involves stanzas and rhythm, as well as figurative language.

• rhymes

• songs

• poetry

• short stories

a comparison that does not use like or as

• synonym

• simile

• metaphor

• antonym