Massive 7th Grade F.A.S.T. Reading Review

_______ texts include imagined/made up elements.

• Historical

• Informative

• Fictional

______ texts DO NOT HAVE any imagined/made up elements and are completely based in fact.

• Fictional

• Informational

• Literary

A _____ account refers to a type of nonfiction that specifically focuses on explaining the details of something that happened in the past.

• Historic

• Fictional

• Literary

• Informative

The main idea or underlying meaning a writer explores in a novel, short story, poem or other literary work is called...

• The tone

• The setting

• The purpose

• The theme

An easy way to determine the theme or central idea of a text is through...

• guessing

• Topic + Point the author is making about the topic

• reading the entire text at least 3 times

• Asking a friend to give you the answer

"Dialogue" is...

• The time period in which the story is set

• The emotions of the characters

• Conversation between characters

• The main idea of the text

Point of View has to do with...

• 1st, 2nd, and 3rd person narration

• The perspective of different characters

• What each character is able to see

• The fashion sense of each character

When the 3rd person narrator can describe the thoughts, feelings, and actions of multiple characters...

• it is 3rd person omniscient

• it is 3rd person limited

When the 3rd person narrator only describes the thoughts, feelings, and actions of one characters..

• it is 3rd person omniscient

• it is 3rd person limited

Omniscient means...

• All knowing

• Never knowing

• All hearing

• Not seeing