Vocabulary Review

What is the definition of inference?

• to use background knowledge and the text together in order to understand the text

• guess

• interacting with the text

• reading the text accurately

What is theme?

• The message or lesson about life that the author tries to convey to the reader

• character undergoes an important change during the story

• most exciting or intense part of the story

• end of story when conflicts are resolved

What is the main idea in a story?

• is not important to the story

• the most important message the writer is trying to get across to the reader

• contains every detail of the story

• a picture in your mind

What is a rhyme scheme?

• when a rhyme comes up with a scheme

• a pattern of rhymes at the end of each line of a poem

• ABAB

• understanding what you read

Poetry

• roses are red violets are blue

• does not rhyme at all

• rhythmical written descriptive language

• a dramatic comparison of two objects

What is indirect characterization?

• description of two characters

• author IMPLIES a personality or physical trait about a character

• throwing shade

• foreshadowing events

What is direct characterization? (also known as explicit characterization)

• implies a personality trait

• when a person has good character

• foreshadowing events

• An author DIRECTLY tells the reader a personality or physical trait about a character

conflict

• a loving relationship

• a fight between classmates at school

• a struggle between opposing forces when characters must act to confront those forces

• creates and drives the plot forward

What is setting in a story?

• initiates the main backdrop and mood for a story

• sitting down

• main points of the story

• all of the above

what is the key idea?

• the least important part of a paragraph

• point of the paragraph

• main idea

• an unimportant fact