Reading Terms

What is the time and place of the action in a story or play called?

• Plot
• Setting
• Symbol
• Theme

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

What is the term for a person, place, or object that represents something beyond itself?

• Symbol
• Main idea
• Description
• Context Clue

Tags

CCSS.RI. 9-10.2

CCSS.RI.11-12.2

CCSS.RL.11-12.2

CCSS.RL.7.2

CCSS.RL.8.2

A logical guess or conclusion based on evidence that allows a reader to figure out more than the words say is called a/an.

• Author's purpose
• Analysis
• Exaggeration 
• Inference

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.2

CCSS.RI.7.1

CCSS.RI.8.1

CCSS.RL.7.1

CCSS.RL.9-10.1

Universal message the story conveys in a novel or short story.

• Theme
• Main idea
• Exposition
• Author's  purpose

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

Message intimating that something means much more than it actually does

• Exaggeration
• Exposition

Tags

CCSS.RL.1.10

CCSS.RL.K.5

Writer laying the foundation by using prior knowledge to introduce the story.

• Expostion
• Author's purpose

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.7

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.6.9

Statement that can or cannot be proven, may reflect personal beliefs, and may often be debatable.

• Comparison
• Context clues
• Fact and Opinion
• Inference

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.6

Process of breaking down something, like a poem or short story, into it parts and drawing conclusions about it.

• Exposition
• Analysis
• Exaggeration
• Conflict

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

To entertain the reader, explain or inform, express an opinion, or persuade the reader to believe or do something

• Fact and opinion
• Prior knowledge
• Author's purpose
• Questioning

Tags

CCSS.RI.7.6

CCSS.RI.7.9

CCSS.RI.8.6

CCSS.RI.8.9

CCSS.RL.11-12.6

A relationship among events in a piece of literature where one event brings about the next event.

• Exposition
• Persuasion
• Context clues
• Cause and Effect

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3