1st 9 Weeks Test Review

Simile

• Comparing two things

• Comparing two things using like or as

• The repeating consonant sound at the beginning of a word

• A descriptive phrase that does not mean what it actually says and is usually a common saying.

Infer

• To break down

• To make an educated guess

• To back up

• To define a term

Oxymoron

• A sound

• When two opposite words appear next to each other

• Two things that are opposite being compared to each other

• To hint towards a future event

Alliteration

• Comparing two things

• Comparing two things using like or as

• The repeating consonant sound at the beginning of a word

• A descriptive phrase that does not mean what it actually says and is usually a common saying.

Central Idea

• to back up

• the feeling you get from a word

• the main idea of a text

• the moral lesson of a text

Theme

• to back up

• the feeling you get from a word

• the main idea of a text

• the moral lesson of a text

Analyze

• To break down

• To make an educated guess

• To back up

• To define a term

Plot

• the sequence of events that follow the climax

• the end of the story.

• The story's series of events.

• to jump into an earlier time period in a character's life

Shape

• To make, change, or grow

• To form

• To make better

• A short version of the text

Support

• to back up

• the feeling you get from a word

• the main idea of a text

• the moral lesson of a text