Reading Vocabulary Scrimmage

what the text is mostly about

• text evidence

• analogy

• theme

• central idea

short story that typically involves animals as characters and conveys a moral

• inference

• central idea

• fable

• summary

giving a brief statement of the main points

• summarize

• recite

• analyze

• repeat

a reasonable guess based on text evidence and background knowledge

• central idea

• inference

• fact

• opinion

a comparison of two things

• fact

• analogy

• inference

• opinion

Stories that are not real

• fiction

• nonfiction

• summarize

• theme

An exaggeration

• simile

• metaphor

• hyperbole

• personification

Doing, saying, or writing something again and again

• repetition

• onomatopoeia

• simile

• hyperbole

Words that represent a sound

• Onomatopoeia

• Hyperbole

• Repetition

• Simile

A group of lines in a poem

• paragraphs

• stanzas

• lines

• columns